Putting Wallarm Management Console on a Fast Track

With this update we significantly reduced Elasticsearch load and thereby improved the responsiveness of the user interface with an attack showing up within seconds of being detected. Our new user-friendly interface has a lag time of no more than 5 seconds. The post Putting Wallarm Management...

Cyber UL Could Become Reality Under Leadership of Hacker Mudge

UPDATE–One of the longstanding problems in security–and the software industry in general–is the lack of any universally acknowledged authority on quality and reliability. But the industry moved one step closer to making such a clearinghouse a reality this week when Peiter Zatko, a longtime...

CrowdSource Tool Aims to Improve Automated Malware Analysis

When a new piece of malware surfaces, it’s typically analyzed eight ways from Sunday by a long list of antimalware and other security companies, government agencies, CERTs and other organizations who try to break it down and classify its capabilities. There’s a lot of duplicated effort there, and...

[SPF v0.1.7] Smartphone Pentest Framework - Support of the SMS shell pivot

The smartphone penetration testing framework, the result of a DARPA Cyber Fast Track project, aims to provide an open source toolkit that addresses the many facets of assessing the security posture of these devices. We will look at the functionality of the framework including information gatherin...

[SET Version 5.0] The Social-Engineer Toolkit "The Wild West"

Social-Engineer Toolkit SET v5.0 codename: The Wild West is a culmination of six months of development, bug squashing, and user feedback. New with this version includes a completely redesigned multiprocessing web server that handles non-rfc compliant HTTP information. The builtin SET web server...

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Mudge on the CFT

Peiter Zatko, also known as Mudge, has run the DARPA Cyber Fast Track program for the last three years, but he said that the researcher program is ending on April 1. The CFT program funded a wide range of security research projects in its time, including Charlie Miller’s NFC work and Moxie...

Groundbreaking Cyber Fast Track Research Program Ending

VANCOUVER–When Peiter Zatko, the security researcher and pioneering hacker known as Mudge, joined the federal government several years ago to help run a DARPA research program, some in the security industry wondered what effect someone with his background could have in an organization as famously...

HackRF Jawbreaker Could Bring Low-Cost Wireless Hacking to the Masses

Generations of hobbyists hardware hackers have spent countless hours messing with piles of radio gear, happily tinkering away in garages and basements looking for new ways to connect to people around the world. Now, a researcher has put together a new radio called HackRF that is a kind of...

Cortana scripting language introduced for Cobalt Strike and Armitage

At DEFCON 20, Raphael Mudge the developer of Armitage released the most significant update to Armitage. Armitage is now fully scriptable and capable of hosting bots in acollaborative hacking engagement. Raphael Mudge is the founder of Strategic Cyber LLC, a Washington, DC based company that creat...

Pentagon launches "Cyber Fast Track" program to fund hacker innovation

Pentagon launches "Cyber Fast Track " program to fund hacker innovation Peiter Zatko, a hacker known as Mudge who is now at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, said he joined the Pentagon's research arm to try and build bridges between the government's cybersecurity needs and hackers...

Pentagon launches "Cyber Fast Track" program to fund hacker innovation

Pentagon launches "Cyber Fast Track" program to fund hacker innovation Peiter Zatko, a hacker known as Mudge who is now at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, said he joined the Pentagon's research arm to try and build bridges between the government's cybersecurity needs and hackers...

Pentagon Requests Half Billion in Funding to DARPA

In the Pentagon’s 2012 defense budget request, DARPA stands to receive roughly a half billion dollars in funding to “invest in cybertechnologies.” However, what that means is unclear. The announcement represents growing concerns by the federal government that the United States is sorely...

Experts said - Loopholes in law let cyber criminals get away !

MUMBAI: Cyber experts say there should be proper guidelines when the court grants bail to those arrested under the Information Technology IT Act and fast-track courts for cyber-related cases will help proper convictions. Procedures currently followed to grant bail in cyber cases are similar to...