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 Spread the word ! nmap 5 released

Insecure.org has released a new major version of the free, open source “nmap” security scanner. (Don’t just call nmap a port scanner - Thanks to …

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 One for the money, second one for the show...

While I was going through the archive of some ‘funny’ pictures at http://failblog.org/, I suddenly realised that I had encountered something funny a…

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 Free tool : Find out where your AD Users are logged on into

Hi, I decided to release another free utility I wrote a while ago. This small command-line utility can be used to find out where Active Directory …

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 Juniper ScreenOS : Active/Passive clustering

Introduction In this blog post, I’ll show the easy steps to set up a screenOS based active/passive cluster. I’m not going to discuss the …

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 Backtrack 4 cheat sheet

Download backtrack from http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack_download.html. Current version at the time of writing is BT4 Pre-Final.This …

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 Installing Windows 7 from a USB key

Microsoft has announced that it will support Windows 7 installations from a USB key. This will allow people to install Windows 7 on systems that do …

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Corelan Research is a long-running cybersecurity research project focused on exploit development, vulnerability research and Windows internals.
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