Archive for October 2012
The Social Media Dilemma for Businesses
As many know I am one of the owners of a tech start-up and as of late social media has been kicking my butt. I often talk about keeping your cool and resorting to your more rational, logical, thoughts before engaging with people and engaging in debate, but I am quickly learning that its not…
Read More2012 NCSA / Symantec: National Small Business Cyber Security Study
The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) partnered with Symantec to conduct an online safety survey study of Small to Medium businesses. It was just released October of 2012 and as surprising as some of the data points are, they really shouldn’t be. The total representative sample group was 1,015 US based SMB’s (250 employees or…
Read MoreOSSEC Agent to Server Connection Issues
So naturally, as of late, I have found myself doing more than I probably need to on my servers and in the process causing more headaches then required. One of those issues has been with the communication between my agents and the mother-ship (command control) server with my OSSEC installs. For more details information, be…
Read MoreUpdate WPSCAN using GIT on BackTrack 5R2
So I have been playing with a number of tools lately and this was perhaps one of the easiest things I couldn’t figure out. Talk about having a “WTF” moment. If you’re curious, wpscan is a vulnerability scanner designed to pentest WordPress applications. It has a number of features that allow you to enumerate usernames, plugins, and…
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