The beauty of Linux is the plentiful availability of useful tools. And magically they’re all free. Quick App Launcher In this post, we’ll take a look at Kupfer, a quick application and document launcher. This is an useful tool since there are only so many icons you can place on Read More
In penetration testing, as in life, there’s no substitute for reconnaissance. Simply put, the better prepared man has a much better chance of success. Reconnaissance a.k.a. information gathering or research is a crucial first step in the penetration testing process. Unlike other phases of penetration testing, there’s no clear, defined Read More
While you’re relaxing at the beach or barbecuing smoky kebabs over the weekend, unbeknownst to you nasty elements in Mumbai, Turkey, Ukraine, China, Azerbaijan, Russia, Iran, New York, Dallas etc are relentlessly plotting to do your business harm by hacking your web site, stealing customer credit card details, filching Social Read More
Linux distribution Ubuntu should soon be wrapping up work on Ubuntu Touch, its first iteration for smartphones. Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical (the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu), wrote in a blog post Monday, October 20, 2014: Our ventrous quest to put GNU as you love it on phones is bearing Read More
The Tails project is asking users to upgrade to its newest release, Tails 1.2, stating that it has fixed a bunch of security issues and bugs in the new version. Tails (an acronym for The Amnesic Incognito Live System) is the Debian Linux-based anonymous operating system that provides greater anonymity Read More
If you ask me, all the great men (and women) in history rose to eminence without ever clicking on a notes application. Alexander the Great, Galileo, Isaac Newton, Steve Jobs, Mahatma Gandhi and countless other ‘illustrious’ figures never clicked on a notes app. Gibbon and Nabokov wrote their classic, timeless Read More