Security Bytes

Security Vendors and Social Responsibility

Or why their products should be priced more affordably

Quick One: Stop Calling it ‘Identity Theft’

This is just a quick post inspired by some comments that I’ve seen recently on Twitter following some mega-breaches.

The term ‘Identity Theft’ implies, and its usage accepts, that the person whose identity is being stolen is the…

Tommy Boy VM

Next up in the series of taking on Vulnerable Virtual Machines from Vulnhub.com, Tommy boy.

wfuzz— Using the web brute forcer

I like wfuzz, I find it pretty intuitive to use and decided to write a little bit about a couple of use cases for this neat little tool.

All the usual caveats, there are so very many ways available to skin a cat, so this is by no means the only…

Bricking IoT devices gives incentives for better security

(was: ‘How to force manufacturers to take IoT security seriously?’)

This is just a brief thought which has popped into my head that I thought I’d share.

Tr0ll2 VM

Not done one of these in while, time to get back on the horse.

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Vulnhub VM — IMF — Impossible Mission Force!

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