Good afternoon everybody! I hope your day is going well.
Here are today's Interesting Information Security Bits from around the web.
- SynJunkie is starting a Metasploit on Backtrack 4 series.
Syn: Backtrack 4. MSF - Part 1
Tags: ( metasploit backtrack-4 ) - Yesterday I pointed to an F-Secure article that mentioned that Twitter was now filtering for sites that hosted malware. I also asked the question if it worked with url shorteners. Dancho asked the same questions check inside to see what he found.
Does Twitter's malware link filter really work? | Zero Day | ZDNet.com
Tags: ( twitter ) - Metadata can tell you a whole bunch of things. This article talks about a tool that helps you find that metadata.
'FOCA' And The Power Of Metadata Analysis - Evil Bytes Blog - Dark Reading
Tags: ( metadata ) - Viss has a nice set of Defcon 17 pics up.
Defcon 17 - a set on Flickr
Tags: ( defcon ) - Nice article on setting up some automated reputation monitoring activities.
Security Reputation Monitoring << HexEsec | a pentester's view
Tags: ( reputation ) - The marines have banned social networking, should your organization follow?
U.S. Marines ban Facebook, MySpace, Twitter | Zero Day | ZDNet.com
Tags: ( social-networks ) - Interesting post about a service provided for evil malware authors.
Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge: Managed Polymorphic Script Obfuscation Services
Tags: ( malware ) - Here is an article about the mystery challenge at Defcon this year. I was a part of the Security Catalyst team last year which tied for second this year. Yeah team!
DefCon 17 Mystery Challenge | Threat Level | Wired.com
Tags: ( defcon mystery-challenge )
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