Elie

MARCH 7, 2013

Early July 2012, I reported to Apple numerous vulnerabilities related to their App Store iOS app. Last week Apple finally issued a fix for it and turned on HTTPS for the App Store. I am really happy that my spare-time work pushed Apple to finally enabled HTTPS to protect users.

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NopSec

MARCH 26, 2013

Penetration testing is one of the services that we offer NopSec customers. A vulnerability assessment and penetration test provide an excellent snapshot of an organization’s risk at a given point in time. By simulating a real-world attack, our Security Engineers actively attempt to exploit vulnerabilities and gain access to system resources without damaging or disrupting any of our customer’s production services.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 24, 2013

We’ve been busy this week, still behind on our emails, but going strong with Kali development. We packaged some new tools which were pointed out by the community as missing, such as inguma , arachni , bully , lbd , uniscan , automater , as well as started to build a framework of libraries and patches for bluetooth sniffing and ubertooth tools.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MARCH 1, 2013

In October 2012, the Article 29 Working Party highlighted their concerns about Google’s new consolidated privacy policy. This converted a […].

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Kali Linux

MARCH 17, 2013

Five days into the Kali Linux release at BlackHat EU in Amsterdam, and we’re still not fully recovered. Since the release, we’ve had just over 90,000 downloads , a dozen or so package updates, added more articles to the Kali Documentation, started a Portuguese translation , and we even managed to squeeze in a small bugfix release (Kali 1.0.1), which resolved an annoying USB keyboard issue some users reported.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 12, 2013

Enter Kali Linux “ So, what’s the difference between BackTrack and Kali? ” you might be asking. Unfortunately for us, that’s not a simple question to answer. It’s a mix between “everything” and “not much”, depending on how you used BackTrack. From an end user perspective, the most obvious change would be the switch to Debian and an FHS-compliant system.

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NopSec

MARCH 6, 2013

Last week at the RSA Conference, Lisa Xu and I had an opportunity to sit down with Tracy Kitten, Managing Editor of Bankinfosecurity.com , a publication specializing in coverage of information security, risk management, privacy and fraud. Tracy had questions about what we do at NopSec and then we dove into a conversation about why normalizing and aggregating data ensures security gaps are filled.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MARCH 21, 2013

What is Big Data? Big Data is about using mathematical models to spot patterns or “footprints” in large datasets. The […].

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