Brian Bourne

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Metasploit acquired by Rapid7

Early yesterday the news became official first by press release, then by a very well done podcast over at Risky Business. The very popular...

A look at the SMS exploits

Further to my post from this morning promising more on the SMS attacks, here’s the commentary from Bruce…———————If you haven’t seen the news about...

Thoughts on Blackhat / Defcon

It turns out that even with the best intentions, writing dailyupdates from BlackHat and Defcon is a very difficult endeavour. ClearlyI failed at it...

Learnings from BlackHat – New attacks on SSL

Bruce Cowper and myself are currently at Black Hat taking in a largevariety of talks. We’re here both out of passion for the securitycommunity...

SecTor 2008

Ok. You likely noticed that I blog mostly about the latest happenings in security. It fascinates me, and frankly I think it’s...

Virtual Appliances: Has Everyone Lost Their Mind??

The media is buzzing about virtual appliances (VA’s) as company after company issues a press release about some fancy new virtual appliance that will...

BlackHat USA 2008 – Day 2 Review

Today was the second and final day of the BlackHat USA Briefings. A lot of great content was presented today. Much like yesterday we’ve...

BlackHat USA 2008 – Day 1 Review

Welcome to our first Security Insider posting from the BlackHat conference here in Las Vegas. My colleague Tadd Axon and I will be...

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