Identifies TCP connections on the chosen network interface and attempts to interpret them as SSLv3/TLS traffic. When it identifies SSLv3/TLS traffic, it decodes the records and displays them in a textual form to stdout.
Tag: security
National Security Archive
very interesting in a total history way. i wonder what future historians will be able to infer with so many smoking guns.
Nuclear Secrets Leak
highly classified e-mail dealing with the composition of America’s atomic weapons had illegally been sent via non-secured networks to members of the board of Los Alamos National Security Upon learning of the Jan. 19, 2007, incident, government officials immediately ordered the seizure of computers that had sent or received the super-sensitive information. the fact that the message had passed electronically from person to person without safeguards was quickly designated an “IMI-1” violation, the most serious breach of US national security.
the ineptitude of these people really scares me.
Web Server Software and Malware
Compared to our sample of servers across the Internet, Microsoft IIS features twice as often (49% vs. 23%) as a malware distributing server.
finally some market share gains for IIS!
Extracting Browser History
changing the color of links for sites you’ve visited. A piece of javascript on a webpage can view the color of these links to determine whether you’ve visited a site.
clever. now this is a real privacy concern, unlike pictures on the street.
Botnet turf wars
Spam researchers have discovered an ongoing turf war between “botnet” masters who are attempting to infect rivals’ computers and then kick out rivals’ own spyware so that the computers they compromise become uniquely theirs.
wasn’t there a bad movie from the 80s with that premise?
Global Incident Map
a new way to visualize, and become instantly aware of terrorism and security incidents across the world
wow, tacky! i would like a “false alarm” %.
Nano Weapons
art as scenario planning
Universal PDF XSS
oy. acrobat has a XSS hole with the (useful) # handling by the plugin
Snake oil security
my parent always forward me these things clueless acquaintances of them have heard about. i for one would love to see the security swamp dried out.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 