The “Certified Ethical Hacker: Study Guide” by Kimberly Graves have gained considerable attention and popularity in recent years in response to the need for professional information security practitioners to increase their awareness in the techniques, tools and motives used by hackers.
A hacker named Hector Martin is the first person to claim a prize of £1,870 for successfully producing drivers for the Kinect controller. These drivers will be continually updated by a growing community. Hector’s drivers are for Linux systems at the moment.
The term “Cyber Monday” refers to the Monday immediately following Black Friday, the ceremonial kick-off of the holiday online shopping season in the United States between Thanksgiving Day and Christmas. Whereas Black Friday is associated with traditional brick-and-mortar stores, “Cyber Monday” symbolizes a busy day for online retailers.
The Security Innovation Network (SINET) Workshop was held on October 26th and 27th at The National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The workshop was truly a place were security issues of today were being solved with innovative solutions of tomorrow.
The purpose of SINET was to bring innovative cyber-security companies together with government and corporate customers as well as venture capitalist for possible continued funding and product expansion.
Metasploit Pro is designed for security professionals in enterprises, government agencies and consulting firms who need to make network security testing more efficient in order to reduce costs. Unlike alternative products, Metasploit Pro improves the efficiency of penetration testers by providing unrestricted remote network access, and by enabling teams to collaborate efficiently. Metasploit Pro exceeds the functionality of Metasploit Express™ with support for security testing of custom Web applications, managing client-side campaigns against end-users, and additional evasion features. And, effective immediately, Metasploit Pro is available for trial and purchase.
In United States, phishing is becoming one of the fastest evolving classes of identity theft scams on the Internet, causing both short-term losses and long-term economic damage. In a phishing scam, the identity thief poses as a legitimate person from a reputable company to try to entice people to visit bogus Web sites, where they are asked to reveal important personal information, such as credit card data. Although most phishing attacks target the financial industry, a growing number of phishing incidents target other sectors, such as retailers, online game operators and Internet Service Providers.
CBT Nuggets site is a good resource for online video training. There were a few minor issues that come with age, such as the site intermemos.com no longer being available, but away from that, the content and presentation of the material was really good and easy to follow. The training package went into a lot of detail and in some cases going over the really basic information that most candidates for the CEH should already have a full grasp on, at least in my opinion. The prices are fair and consistent with other training sites, the one thing I would point out is if you get the 30 day license, you really make sure you have the time during that month to complete the training; there are approximately 11 and ½ hours of material in this course.
I have just finished installing Ubuntu 9.04 on a Gateway laptop, everything worked well from video to wireless until I popped in a DVD to watch. Did the updates and still nothing, until I ran across this command on the Internet, tried it and everything is golden now.
Cybercrime expert Gregory Evans explains the potential risks hackers can pose to webcams on your system and how to ensure your safety and privacy online.
This issue is a problem as in the case against a Pennsylvania school district that turned on the webcam of various student’s school-issued laptops while the computers and captured images of “inappropriate activity” in the student’s home.
The National Cybersecurity Awareness Month officially kicked off today Monday, October 4, 2010 in Washington DC at The Lockheed Martin’s Global Vision Center (GVC). The campaign for this year is titled, “Stop. Think. Connect.” This aims to empower citizens to make choices that contribute to the overall security of the Internet; according to a White House proclamation issued last Friday.
