Good afternoon everybody! I hope your day is going well.
Here are today's Interesting Information Security Bits from around the web.
- William is building a taxonomy of cloud computer benefits. Go check it out and contribute.
William Vambenepe -- Taxonomy of Cloud Computing Benefits
Tags: ( cloud ) - Brian is interested in finding out what kind of internet users his readers think they are.
What Kind of Internet User Are You? -- Krebs on Security
Tags: ( general ) - Burp Suite v1.3 has been released.
PortSwigger.net - web application security: Burp Suite v1.3 released
Tags: ( webappsec tools burp ) - Port knocking is a pretty nifty technique for providing remote access to your system while it appears to be unreachable via the network. It involves sending a specific set of packets or a specifically crafted packet to nominally "closed" ports on your system. The firewall or add-on tooling listens for these packets and then opens the appropriate ports when it sees them. This page has a list of tools that you can use to setup port knocking.
PORTKNOCKING - A system for stealthy authentication across closed ports. : IMPLEMENTATIONS : implementations
Tags: ( remote-access port-knocking )
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