This year’s topic is Point Of Origin Hacking and it promises to be very interesting.
Private training runs October 9th – 11th and the conference will be October 12th, with Packet Wars on the 13th.
Visit http://www.day-con.org/ for more info, schedule of events or to reserve your seat.
Update 03/30/2013: Once again, it’s been a while since I checked in at the LPS site and there have been more updates & releases. As of 03/13/2013 it’s now at version 1.4.0. Check the links below for the details.
There’s also an amusing video http://spi.dod.mil/docs/Top_Ten_640x360.wmv to watch.
Update 06/30/2012: I haven’t looked at the LPS site for almost a year until today and realized that there have been many updates, roughly one a month, since its initial release. As of 06/15/2012, it’s at version 1.3.5. Here’s link to the release notes page so you can see for yourself – http://spi.dod.mil/CHANGES.html
The ATSPI Technology Office at WPAFB has released version 1.2.2 of “Lightweight Portable Security” LiveCD. It’s linux-based, has low end hardware requirements and can be booted from CD or using the built-in script, you can make a bootable USB drive.
I got it to boot in Vbox with 384megs and 800×600 resolution. When I bumped the RAM up to the recommended 512megs it went to 1024×768 automatically. It found my DHCP server & FireFox worked as expected. I haven’t had time to try any of the other features, so if you get a chance to play with it leave a comment with your results.
The link below has the standard ISO, plus a “Deluxe” version that includes OpenOffice and Adobe Reader. There are also release notes, a user manual & a quick start guide.
The dates for DAY-CON V, Dayton’s premier security summit, have been announced: DAY-CON will be on Friday, October 7th & PACKET WARS will be on Saturday the 8th, 2011!
Private workshops are being held October 4th-6th.
Visit www.day-con.org for more info.
Self Image for Windows has been my tool of choice for making disk images for a long time. I’ve used it for forensic copies, offsite backups of critical client machines and to image laptops when I want to test a new OS.
My favorite feature is that it can be installed on a working system and used to back up files that are in use to another hard drive or a network share so you don’t need to remove a drive to use it. It’s also included in UBCD4Win (Ultimate Boot CD for Windows) if you want or need to boot into a “live” Windows environment.
Granted, it hasn’t been updated in a couple of years, but it’s still a very useful tool!
Anyway, it looks like selfimage.excelcia.org is gone.
Here’s a link to selfimage.excelcia.org via the Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20080630053926/http://selfimage.excelcia.org/ if you want to get the author’s rundown on what it can do.
Here’s a link to the last version I know about for download: SelfImage-121
I’ve been happily using the Privacy Policy generator plugin by Eric Giguere on a number of sites for quite a while. I happened to be looking at it one day recently and decided to read what he had written in the Privacy Policy Primer link included in the policy.
Boy was I surprised! The link to the primer has been hijacked by a popup virus warning scam that takes over your browser. My anti-virus went nuts & I eventually had to kill the browser to make it go away. I’m not sure if the rest of the site or the plugin itself have also been infected, but I won’t be going there any time soon!
The link looks more or less like this:
“See this www synclastic com / privacy / privacy-policies privacy policy primer to learn more about privacy policies in general.”
I’ve intentionally kept the URL spaced out so you know what it is & what it looks like.
I’ll be removing the link from all of my sites so none of my readers get the same nasty surprise I did!