Building my security lab
So I’ve been slowly (that is VERY slowly) re-arranging my office to make some additional room for some additional computers. My goal is to create a security lab that will allow me in my spare time to work on my web assessment/penetration skills. My intention was to utilize either VMWare or Sun’s Virtual Box to give me some additional flexibility and hopefully keep my electric bill somewhere below the GDP of Micronesia (which in case you are wondering is about 232 million USD). Well while poking around today, I found this great article that covers Virtual Appliances, with a specific focus on those that would be of interest to the security professional. Now many of these would have nothing to do with my web application penetration testing, but they are still some pretty neat appliances. It’s worth a read:
Virtual appliances for the security professional
Why do you believe in god?
Science is hard
A good-bye to Tim Zewe
Tim Zewe shuffled off this mortal coil yesterday, May 2nd 2009. I had only recently been back in contact with Tim again through Facebook. I had hoped to see him and his soon-to-be-wife Christina on one of my trips to Erie in the near future. We had some catching up to do. I found this post on his blog called “Why I Suck at Baseball” and I think it sums Tim up better than I ever could (at least the Tim I knew from so many years ago), and it seems like a fitting tribute:
You have doomed us all
Your Mac isn’t as secure as you think
6 zero days (one of them remotely exploitable).
http://digit-labs.org/
Apple has yet to release a patch for any of them. Come on Apple.
Wait, you want me to believe the National Organization for Marriage is just a bunch of bigots?
Okay, when you put it that way, I guess they just might be. Great job Redditors!
http://blog.reddit.com/2009/04/redditors-receive-homo-heros-honor-for.html
What Would Jesus NOT Do?
I want a debaptism certificate
I knew I missed something when I was in the UK. I missed an opportunity to purchase a Certificate of Debaptism from the National Secular Society.
This is the stuff that reminds me that religion is dangerous
Afghan women pelted with stones during rape law protest
Afghan women protesting against a new law that severely undermines women’s rights were pelted with stones in the country’s capital Wednesday, say reports.
About 300 mostly young women gathered in Kabul to show their opposition to a recently passed law that forbids women from refusing to have sex with their husbands and requires them to get a male relative’s permission to leave the house.
