Interesting links for 11/25/2009

With all the busy-ness that this holiday weekend entails, I’m just going to leave you all with a bunch of links: TaoSecurity has a really interesting writeup about the ethics of Shodan, a “computer search engine” which provides some very interesting tools for people trying to secure their systems or launch attacks on arbitrary ones. At the very least, it’s interesting seeing how many Nortel switches, Checkpoint firewalls and other devices people are actually running with telnet open to the Internet at large. WWLTV in New Orleans ran a segment on how eastern European hackers are increasingly targeting American small … Continue Reading →