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Paterva Maltego - Reconnaissance Tool

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

I have blogged about Maltego before (when it was called Evolution). It’s an amazing tool for reconnaissance, and the amount of information you can collect and display just from the web is amazing. It was so good, I had feared that like many great free and open source tools, the project would die unexpectedly and [...]

Truecrypt - 100% Free File Encryption Software

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Truecrypt is a free and open source on-the-fly disk encryption system. It supports both Windows and Linux, and offers several options for encryption. The first type is the virtual encrypted disk - a regular file that can be mounted as an actual disk, with all encryption done on-the-fly and transparently - the mounted disk functions [...]

Installing OpenBSD 4.2 in VMware

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

If you’re interested in security, you’ve probably already heard about OpenBSD. It’s a Unix-like operating system whose primary focus is security and cryptography (it’s based in Canada, so no export restrictions). Out-of-the-box, it is arguably the most secure Unix, and is commonly used for firewalls and other appliances. Of course, it’s also a fully fledged [...]

Secure Remote Desktop - NoMachine NX

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

I had been searching for a secure remote desktop solution for Linux for years. Most solutions I had tried were either terribly insecure or painfully slow, or both. Various flavors of VNC (and friends) have been plagued with security holes, lack of encryption, and poor speed. Microsoft Terminal Services and Remote Desktop, although faster than [...]

The new way to do Reconnaissance?

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Paterva Evolution is a new reconnaissance tool that can quickly create graphs of the relationships between both internet infrastructure (such as domain names, IP addresses, and web sites), and personal attributes (such as names, emails and phone numbers). It’s based on Java and runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. The GUI is [...]