01-16-12 \\ Hacking
Vega – My #1 Web Vulnerability Scanner for Mac OSX and Linux
Vega has quickly become the first tool in my web vulnerability and pen testing arsenal. It’s fast and copiously comes up with more results than any other scanner I’ve come across. It’s also a free (open-source) tool, with a host of great features. It also runs sm on Mac OSX and Linux.
01-14-12 \\ Guides
Backtrack 5: Social Engineering Toolkit Primer for Penetration Testing
Social engineering attacks are one of the top techniques used against networks today. Why spend days, weeks or even months trying to penetrate layers of network security when you can just trick a user into running a file that allows you full access to their machine and bypasses anti-virus, firewalls and many intrusion detection systems? [...]
01-13-12 \\ Hacking
Wireless Security Tool Update: New EAPScan Features Check for WPS
Due to the fact that WPS is an expanded EAP type, SecureState added support to the EAPScan tool of the EAPeak Suite to actively probe an access point to checkif WPS is enabled.
12-26-11 \\ Guides
Guide to Installing Metasploit 4 and Armitage on Mac OSX Lion
A quick step by step on installing the Metasploit 4 framework
11-15-11 \\ Guides
How to Check Exchange 2003 IMAP email from Mac OSX Mail clients
DavMail is a free app that creates a reverse proxy connection to Outlook Exchange 2003 OWA webmail. You can then use the app’s local IMAP and SMTP settings to send and receive mail from Exchange 2003. DavMail works with POP, IMAP, SMTP, Caldav, Cardav and LDAP.
11-07-11 \\ Reviews
6 Lifestyle Apps for Mac OSX reviewed – Journal, Finance, Recipe, Family Tree, Stocks and a Productivity Timer
An overview of 6 of my favorite, and most used, Mac OSX apps. The apps included in this article are DayOne Journal, Jumsoft Money, YummySoup Recipe Manager, Mac Family Tree Maker, Timing personal time tracker, and Investoscope stock tracker.
11-02-11 \\ InfoSec
Duqu exploits zero-day flaw in Windows kernel
The Duqu trojan infects systems by exploiting a previously unknown Windows kernel vulnerability that is remotely executable, security vendor Symantec said today.
11-02-11 \\ Guides
Change the Mac OSX hostname via command line
For some reason, changing the Mac OSX hostname isn’t as simple as changing the name in the share settings. Here is quick guide on manually changing the hostname in terminal.
11-01-11 \\ OSX
Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac – Free Giveaway Contest!
We’ve teamed up with Parallels to give away 4 copies of their new Parallels Desktop 7 product. We will be announcing 1 winner each week. All you have to do to enter is retweet a message. You will be allowed to enter the contest each week with a new retweet for more changes to win!
10-31-11 \\ Reviews
Parallels 7 destroys VMWare Fusion 4 in Windows and Linux Pen Testing Environments
Parallels 7 vs VMWare Fusion 4 Desktop Virtualization Head to Head for Mac OSX I started using Parallels 7 to run virtual machine labs to practice my security assessment skills. I’ve read a ton of reviews comparing Parallels 7 to VMWare Fusion 4, but I wanted to try testing the two myself. I’ll save you [...]
10-17-11 \\ Guides
HIPPA Compliance Checklist 2011
An important component of preparing for a potential HIPAA compliance audit is to complete a “walk through” to make sure privacy and security policies and procedures are practical and effective.” Here is a short HIPAA Compliance Check List:
10-16-11 \\ Guides
Create vanity name servers with Godaddy (ns1, ns2) and use your custom DNS with external client domains
I manage several client domains and I wanted a way to centrally manage their DNS while pointing their DNS records to my custom vanity name servers: ns1.curvve.net and ns2.curvve.net. This isn’t a straight forward solution that godaddy offers, but it does work. WHOIS my domain and see for yourself.
10-15-11 \\ Hacking
Gather Intelligence from Google using these hand picked Google Dorks
Google dorks can be defined as keywords in a Google search that dig out juicy information like usernames , passwords , documents files , databases etc. from websites (simple and to the point). These google dorks can also be used in Intelligence Gathering.
10-11-11 \\ Hacking
Prep for the CEH v7 exam: Tune your Web Hacking Skills with these Live Hackable Simulation Environments
I am preparing for for my Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) certification and have compiled a handful of really helpful ‘Live’ Simulations that you can practice hacking into. Some are webpages, others are virtual environments. I recomend checking these out, even if you’re in the security field and just want to sharpen your skills.
10-10-11 \\ Themes
OmniFocus for Mac Theme 4 – Cleaner, Slimmer, and Styled for Lion
This is by far the most clean and slimmed down theme I’ve designed for Omnifocus. I styled it to match the colors and themes found in the new OSX Lion interface. I think it’s a great fit.
10-07-11 \\ OSX
Growl, the Original Notification System for Mac, gets a Lion Overhaul
Growl has been (and still is) the defacto standard notification system for your mac. This latest update revives the interface and modernizes the app. Growl is one of those rare apps that instantly becomes indispensable, and you just can’t live without.
10-05-11 \\ Hacking
Test your Web Penetration Skills with Damn Vulnerable Web App
Damn Vulnerable Web App (DVWA) is a PHP/MySQL web application that is damn vulnerable. Its main goals are to be an aid for security professionals to test their skills and tools in a legal environment, help web developers better understand the processes of securing web applications and aid teachers/students to teach/learn web application security in a class room environment.
10-03-11 \\ OSX
Navicat Premium – An Exceptional Database Management Powerhouse, available for Mac OSX, Windows and Linux
Navicat delivers incredible functionality database management functionality, wrapped in a perfectly designed package. while handling support for the major database types including MySQL, SQL Server, SQLite, Oracle and PostgreSQL.
09-26-11 \\ OSX
Quickbooks 2012 for Mac – Intuit delivers a business accounting product worthy of OSX
Quickbooks 2012 Business Accounting For those of you that don’t like to read long winded reviews, I’ll get right to the point: As an OSX user, you probably share the distaste left by Intuit over the previous Quickbooks product releases. In fact, at the time that Quickbooks 2012 was announced, I was in the process [...]
09-24-11 \\ Guides
Automate Daily Backups of MySQL databases with AutoMySQLBackup
A script to take daily, weekly and monthly backups of your MySQL databases using mysqldump. Features – Backup mutiple databases – Single backup file or to a seperate file for each DB – Compress backup files – Backup remote servers – E-mail logs -