HackingTheUniverse

Nmap, the free, open source utility that has become a basic tool for many network security professionals, has released a new version.
Nmap 5.20 Released - [nmap.org]
Happy new year, everyone. I’m happy to announce Nmap 5.20–our first
stable Nmap release since 5.00 last July! It offers more than 150
significant improvements, including:
o 30+ new Nmap [...]

The Metasploit Framework is a framework that enables penetration testing by combining modular packages of exploit code, payloads and tools such as Meterpreter that allow the tester to maintain access, collect information on the target system and execute pivot attacks against other systems. This script helps the tester by maintaining backdoor access.
Meterpreter Persistence - [...]

This intriguing article offers up some quick and short thoughts on visual hacking.

Hacking With Pictures - [quietbabylon.com]
1 - TV hypnotherapy
2 - Images become executable
3 - Retinal scanners
4 - Pokemon seizures
5- Flashbang grenades
6 - 2D bar codes
7 - 2nd Life presentation
8 - Sixth Sense hacking
9 - Forged authentication
10 - Digital sleight of hand
SEE ALSO:
Sixth Sense

Snort is a free, open source, packet sniffing, protocol analyzing, intrusion detection engine that can be used for both network IDS (intrusion detection system) and IPS (intrusion prevention system) and can be linked to a variety of analysis front end interfaces. It runs on both linux and windows. Snort rules establish the parameters for packet [...]

NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) has provided Federal Agencies with all the tools they need to get cyber-security done right. But obviously, it’s not being done right yet at most agencies. Why not?

Failure to understand the threat level - this was certainly once the top problem… maybe not so much anymore with all [...]

Penetration testing efforts don’t always get launched from a room full of computers with a crew busily working on them. Like wireless wardriving, it can go mobile. Here are two devices that can help put your pen-testers in motion and right in the thick of the action, even inside the physical perimeter. [...]

A new version of nmap has been released.
From Fyodors announcement:
Hello everyone. I’m delighted to announce the release of Nmap 5.00! This is the first major release since 4.50 in 2007, and includes about 600 significant changes since then! We consider this the most important Nmap release since 1997, and we recommend that [...]

Some fast food restaurants use cash register keyboards with symbolic diagrams of different food products on them to make it easier to train new staff. The US military is also moving in that direction, trying to take a field that is complex and often accomplished at a highly intuitive level by self-trained individuals and [...]

Netcat is a very simple tool that can accomplish some fairly sophisticated tasks. At its most simple, netcat makes connections to or from both TCP and UDP ports. It can be used to connect to some service that is listening for a connection or it can be set as a listener waiting for [...]

This is a new resource that will most likely, with all the resources and brilliant security minds that SANS can bring to the table, grow in value significantly over time. Keep an eye on this list.
 
SANS Blogs - [sans.org]
SANS has created a handful of blogs that are custom-tailored to computer and network security. If you [...]