Archive for July, 2006
Your Elevator Pitch: How to get Venture Capital (VC) funding!
Life is good again in Silicon Valley. Many start-ups are emerging and they all need one thing….cash. But in order to get Angel or Venture Capital, they need to be able to successfully pitch their company. Irrespective of how important their mission is, or the huge potential market share, if CEOs cannot articulate their value [...]
Posted: July 31st, 2006 under Security.
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WEP 128 Bit cracking in 2 minutes
Just returned from the UK and Germany. I did a press tour showing how simple it is to crack the Wireless WEP protocol. We broke 128 bit encryption in just under 2 minutes using just a Linux laoptop (running PHLAK). Scary stuff when you consider that over 90% of those using Wireless security are using [...]
Posted: July 29th, 2006 under Network Security.
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Computer Misuse Act Amendments to put penetration testers out of business?
One of the most common questions I get asked when in England regards the Law of Computer Crime. The most relevant statute is the Computer Misuse Act 1990. Although many complain it is out of date, it is very generic and therefore adaptable.
I have placed a handy guide to it here
http://www.darknetworks.org/uploads/ComputerMisuseAct.pdf
The law itself is under [...]
Posted: July 27th, 2006 under Management.
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Making sense of online identity- A solution in sight!
This site is owned by Ken Baylor. Not a very common name you would imagine. Strangely enough there are quite a few of them out there. When doing a web search I can come across myself in these links:
http://www.mcafee.com/us/about/press/corporate/2006/20060502_235020_n.html
http://labs.pcw.co.uk/2006/07/do_you_use_wpa_.html
http://www.mcafee.com/us/about/press/corporate/2006/20060801_201826_k.html
http://www.pcw.co.uk/personal-computer-world/news/2161974/mcafee-reiterates-wifi-security
http://www.isaca-london.org/cismjune2005.htm
http://www.technorati.com/tags/Network
http://news.thomasnet.com/companystory/484169
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kenbaylor
But there are also many other people with the name Ken Baylor:
Ken Baylor who works with acrobatic [...]
Posted: July 26th, 2006 under Security.
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Hacker Education
Approximately 2 months ago I headed off to Paris to give a demonstration of Hacking techniques. One of the audiences was composed of journalists. We covered the Foundstone step-by-step methodology and gave live demonstrations of taking a machine on the internet down, in addition to rootkit installation.
http://www.mcafee.com/us/about/press/corporate/2006/20060502_235020_n.html
There has been a great growth in the last [...]
Posted: July 26th, 2006 under Network Security.
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Blogging for Beginners
I have just started this. For those of you who are looking to start blogging, this site will help you validate features, cons, pros etc:
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/images/blog_software_comparison.cfm
Posted: July 25th, 2006 under Uncategorized.
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