Interesting links – September 23
Potentially interesting links for September 23:
- 4 Dangerous Myths about Data Disposal, Debunked – According to Computerwold, the myths are: “We need to keep everything”, “Storage is cheap”, “There’s no way to tell what data is garbage”, and “It’s too hard and it can’t be done perfectly”.
- CERT: Insider Threat Research – Technical and behavioral aspects of actual compromises. Models, reports, training, and tools to raise awareness, indicators and precursors of malicious acts, and countermeasures.
- RAID’s Days May Be Numbered – Big increases in drive density but consistent performance and hard error rates are creating much greater RAID rebuild times and much higher risk of data loss.
- BeEF: Browser exploitation framework – Framework that demonstrates the impact of browser and Cross-site Scripting issues in real-time. Web-based. Can integrate with metasploit. Written in PHP.
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