Events Related: Shakacon 2008 presentations are now online ATM presentation scheduled at Black Hat USA canceled Wired – ATM Vendor Halts Research’s Talk on Vulnerability SearchSecurity – Juniper pulls ATM hacking presentation from Black Hat

Tools: BackTrack 4 pre-final released Official announcement from Offensive-Security BackTrack 4 Pre Final download link Vulns: HTTP Server DoS A technique to consume all the open HTTP sockets available and keep them open, to create a DoS like environment. But with less packets! Slowloris HTTP DoS – ha.ckers.org Apache HTTP DoS tool released – isc.sans.org [...]

Tools: CANVAS 6.47 Includes the VMware 6.5.0/6.5.1 workstation/player breakout “cloudburst” vulnerability Not free, but certainly should be in a penetration testers bag of goodies DVWA – Damn Vulnerable Web App A PHP/MySQL web application that is vulnerable to be used for learning the art of web application security. Author’s blog is ethicalhack3r.co.uk KeyKeriki Open source [...]

Here are the information security events in North America this month: Techno Security Conference 2009 – May 31-June 3 in South Carolina Shakacon III – June 11-12 in Hawaii Sharkfest ‘09 – June 15-18 in California This seems like a slow month for events, but get some rest now as next month has a ton [...]