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Find Files with No User or Group

Jon — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 23:21:30 +0000

This command can yield some interesting information:

find / -nouser -o -nogroup

Learned about it while playing with NeXpose today.

Mobile Security Webcast

Jon — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 05:29:14 +0000

Here is a recorded webcast by Daniel Miessler:

http://t.co/Zf5GhL8

Bank Robbery Analysis

Jon — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 06:31:08 +0000

Interesting article that applies the OSSTMM to a famous diamond heist.

http://www.isecom.org/Bank_Robbery_Analysis_OSSTMM3.pdf

Internet sales tax: Online retailers to start collecting sales taxes in California

Jon — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:24:23 +0000

Well, this just sucks.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-amazon-tax-20110630,0,4344787.story

$1 Billion That Nobody Wants

Jon — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 03:35:56 +0000

http://n.pr/ilLcLO

No one wants to use the dollar coins the government is minting and they are piling up in a warehouse. They keep minting them though because of congressional mandate.

Phone Marketing Blacklist

Jon — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:35:51 +0000

I have been getting calls at my work number from an 800 number where the caller is a recording. Usually it is at night or on the weekend so I just get a voice message of the recording. Today I picked up and out of habit hit ’3′ since that is delete on my voicemail service. The call transferred to the blacklist service where I received instructions on how to remove my number from their list. Just had to hit ’2′. I guess I got lucky.

DEF CON® 19 Hacking Conference

Jon — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 05:44:16 +0000

I think I will go this year.

https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-19/dc-19-index.html

Why Zombies Love PCI Video

Jon — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 05:41:37 +0000

Josh Corman of the 451 Group. The gist is that compliance regulations are too static and set the bar too low to protect us against attackers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQEBYxp_vKs

Why to use the cloud

Jon — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:43:19 +0000

http://www.singlenameserver.com/1142/is-it-time-to-abandon-cloud-computing

According to this healthcare CIO, the chief benefit is saving you time. Don’t expect less downtime or cost.

Yahoo pipes xss exploit for sale

Jon — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:33:45 +0000

http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/05/17/spurned-by-yahoo-hacker-puts…