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Security professionals in the industry have a variety of tools at their disposal.  Folks like the ones over at Offensive Security created Backtrack 3 which is a swiss army knife of penetration testing, information gathering and security analysis tools.  Well kicking things up a few notches, the folks over at Nerv-Labs have built a Live DVD that includes all kinds security distros in one bootable DVD.  This was recently featured in Episode 0×415 of Hak5.  Still, there were a couple tools missing from the security professional’s toolbelt: Helix and Samurai.  Helix 2.0 is the forensics distro, and Samurai is the awesome web application attack/assessment distro put out by InGuardians.

• Backtrack 3
• Helix 2.0
• Samurai Linux
• DBAN
• DVL

DOWNLOAD IT HERE: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4527605/SUMO_Linux

Thanks to Mubix at Room362.com for first publishng this story.

Maltego calls itself an “open source intelligence and forensics application”.  Basically it uses “transformations” or heuristics to derive relationships between entities and extract data from discovered data.  In short, it is a highly configurable crawler that will find related and connected data points based on several different types of starting nodes that you can seed such as: ip address, person, phone number, etc.

Quick start guide:

0) Download the community edition.
1) Add a person entity and, using the properties pane on the right, enter a full name.
2) Right click on the newly created entity and select a transformation to run such as “Email addresses” or “Websites and Blogs”.
3) Watch your graph and data grow!

Check it out by visiting Maltego’s website.

Thanks to Mubix for the original post.

So WordPress has released an iPhone app that I can use to blog directly from my phone! Hopefully this will encourage me to write more often. See: iphone.wordpress.org

I’ve been working from home more often lately and sitting at the coffee table and working from a laptop programming and such gets old. It gets old because my laptop (while only two years old and still pleasantly zippy thanks to Ubuntu Linux) has only a 15″ display. Doing web development where you’re writing code, testing, switching between browser and development environment.. uggh.. gets tiring. So I decided it was time for a new computer!!!!

Specs:

• Samsung 275T 27″ 1920×1200 LCD monitor 3000:1 contrast ratio
• Intel Q6600 Quad Core 2.4GHz (overclocked to 3.2GHz)
• Asus P5E motherboard (IntelX38 chipset)
• 4 G Corsair Ballistix 1066DDR2-8500 RAM
• 4 x Seagate Baracuda 7.2K RPM 360G S-ATA 3GB drives (H/W RAID 5)
• EVGA nVidia 8800GTX PCI-E video card factory overclocked to 620Mhz DDR 768MB
• Samsung DVD+-RW S-ATA drive
• Creative Labs XFI Xtreme-gamer sound card
• Coolmaster 830 case
• Ultra X3 1000W power supply
• 3x Scyth SFF21F fans
• Thermaltake Ultra-120 extreme CPU heat sink
• Arctic Silver 5(AS5) heat adhesive

This is one of the first computers I’ve put together since I last built a 500MHz Pentium almost 7 years ago! It’ll be a great replacement to my 2.2Ghz Pentium D with 1.5Megs of RAM and 120G of disk and an old ATI Radio 9xxx video card.. woo!

Firmware 1.1.1 – iPhone and iPod Touch

Navigate to http://jailbreakme.com using Safari on your iPhone or iPod touch and read the instructions there.

Credits for this jailbreak go to metasploit, rezn, dinopio, drudge, kroo, pumpkin, davidc, dunham, and NerveGas.

Greetz to the iPhone Dev Team.

See: http://iphone.nullriver.com/beta/