The Ultimate Installation Guide for Kali Linux

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My Buddy Aamir Lakhani wrote a awesome Installation guide for kali Linux. This is a updated version of what is available in our book. Check out the original post HERE via www.drchaos.com

Introducing kali Linux

The creators of BackTrack have released a new, advanced penetration testing Linux distribution named kali Linux. BackTrack 5 was the last major version of the BackTrack distribution. The creators of BackTrack decided that to move forward with the challenges of cyber security and modern testing a new foundation was needed. Kali Linux was born and released March 13th 2013. Kali Linux is based on Debian and an FHS-Compliant file system. Continue reading →

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Cool Home Network Device – Meraki Z1

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MerakiLogo Cool Home Network Device Meraki Z1

Cisco acquired Meraki, the leader in cloud controlled WiFI, routing and security late 2012. For those that haven’t heard of Meraki, the concept behind the technology is pretty cool. All device configuration and management is handled using a cloud / web accessible GUI. You can configure everything and ship equipment to where it needs to provide network access prior to first powering things on. Once you are ready, all you do is plug in the equipment and it works (IE all configuration is sent to the device via encrypted tunnel from the cloud) . It really is that simple.

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Privacy and security on Facebook – Things you should know and avoid doing

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The Bestcomputerscienceschools.net (Link HERE) provided me a infographic covering privacy and security of Facebook. I really liked the research and agree with the suggested tips to use Facebook more security. Check it out. Continue reading →

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Metasploit 101 – A Introduction to using Metasploit

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metaIntro Metasploit 101 A Introduction to using Metasploit

Metasploit is one of the most popular open source penetration testing frameworks available today. It offers tons of tools that range from scanning utilities to easy to launch exploits that include encoders used to bypass common security defenses. I’ll walk you through an example by compromising a Windows based authentication server that is not properly patched. Continue reading →

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Silk Road 2.0 online black market reopened after FBI shutdown

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There has been a lot of  press around the closing and now reopening of Silk Road. For those that haven’t heard, Silk Road is underground amazon like network for dealing illegal goods and services. It leverages the Tor or onion router concept to conceal the identity of users using the service. You can find more on silk road HERE.

Drugabuse.com created a infographic displaying details on the history of Silk Road. I found it interested and have posted it below. You can find out more about the people sponsoring the infographic HERE.

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Fine-tuning Snort rules in Security Onion

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A few weeks ago Aamir Lakhani put up a blog post on how to install and configure Snort on Security Onion with Snorby. Since the release of the article He has received numerous requests on how to disable some of the rules. Here is a post on tuning by Aamir. The original post can be found HERE.

If you followed the article, The Ultimate Guide to Installing Security Onion with Snort and Snorby, you are no doubt seeing quite a few events on your Snorby dashboard.

Before you begin, make sure you have root privileges. Type in sudo –i to get root privileges. Continue reading →

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RSA Europe talk on Emily Williams found on PCWorld, Yahoo news, Cio.com and other sources

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privacy nsa security 100053240 gallery RSA Europe talk on Emily Williams found on PCWorld, Yahoo news, Cio.com and other sources

My buddy Aamir Lakhani and I performed a penetration test using social media sources (Facebook and LinkedIn) as a method to compromise users from our target. You can find more about our project aka Emily Williams HERE and HERE as well as at www.drchaos.com. Continue reading →

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ASA CX and Cisco Prime Security Manager 9.2 Released – First Look

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CX Dashboard ASA CX and Cisco Prime Security Manager 9.2 Released First Look

Cisco released 9.2 for ASA CX and Prime Security Manager October 14th 2013. I finally got around to updating my system and so far some features are awesome while others can be improved with future releases. Here is a general overview of what is new with CX 9.2 for the mid range appliances has to offer. The formal release document can be found HERE. Continue reading →

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