{ Codebutler } Firesheep – 3 Weeks later: Fallout
In only a few short weeks, Firesheep has captured the attention and interest of hundreds of thousands of people around the world, and has spurred a lot of great discussion. This is the third in a...
View ArticleEthical Hacking/Pen-Testing…
“It’s easier to ask forgiveness than to get permission“ Adam Robson 2011
View ArticleITV Tonight: Cyberwars
Cyber Wars: ITV1 Thursday 24th February at 7.30pm The internet and the virtual world has come to play a bigger and bigger part in our day to day lives. Increasing amounts of our business and daily...
View ArticleHacker pwns police cruiser
As a penetration tester hired to pierce the digital fortresses of Fortune 1000 casinos, banks and energy companies, Kevin Finisterre has hacked electronic cash boxes, geologic-survey equipment, and on...
View ArticleBreaking_in
On the 6th April 2011 the hacking orientated TV ‘Breaking-In’ aired on Fox. Breaking_in is about a team of so called ‘penetration-testers’ who are contracted to test the security of their customers....
View ArticleBackTrack 5 Codename ‘Revolution’ Released
BackTrack 5 (codenamed ‘REVOLUTION’) has now been released on May 10th 2011. BT5 is available in a number of various flavors depending upon your usage. All downloads are available via .torrent files...
View ArticlePenetrate – WEP key cracking app removed from the Android Market
Over the previous 18 months since discovering the Google Android Platform I have played with many an app from the Google Android Market, all of which were free, out of the many hundreds which I...
View ArticleEuropean Council: Creating hacking tools should be criminal across the EU
The making of hacking tools and computer viruses should be a criminal act across Europe, EU ministers have said. The EU’s Council of Ministers has backed the extension of criminal sanctions to...
View ArticleDigital Security Degrees – Yes? No? Maybe…….
I’ve had a few emails recently from people wanting to know more about Digital Forensic/Ethical Hacking degrees. People may be thinking I’m a little biased having invested countless thousands of pounds,...
View ArticleLulzsec reportedly disbands
A hacker group that has attacked several high-profile websites over the last two months has announced that it is disbanding. Lulz Security made its announcement through its Twitter account, giving no...
View ArticlePenetration Testing Toolkit coming to Android
#DefCon 19 : Android Network Toolkit for Penetration Testing and Hacking Have an Android and wanna start pwning people, networks and machines like penetration testers do? Defcon 2011 is in full...
View ArticleSecurity Assessments You’ve Never Had – But Should…
You are probably familiar with the classic security assessments: internal and external penetration testing, security risk assessments, and PCI gap assessments. You may not be as familiar with, or...
View ArticleBook Review – BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner’s Guide
If you want an easy to follow, step by step guide to analyzing and testing Wi-Fi security, look no further than Vivek Ramachandran’s “BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner’s Guide“. The...
View ArticlePen-Test Game
The ForHacSec.com team have recently come across the Can You Crack It? game for those interested in the security arena particularly around Hacking, Pen-Testing and Coding. So we thought we’d share it...
View ArticleFemale hackers need apply
Even when I was starting to study my degree just some 4 years ago in Digital Forensics and IT Security there appeared to be very little interest in the subject of IT as a whole, let alone Digital...
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