The course will be presented in the usual “Offensive Security” online format pdf + videos and is designed to surprise even experienced MSF users.

The PDF guide along with offline labs for the course will be free of charge. We are working with Metasploit.com and Hackers for Charity to put all proceeds from this course towards feeding children in Kenya and Uganda. The course videos will be available for a small fee. All proceeds will be donated to Hackers for Charity.

This course opens up a new Metasploit Framework Certification track – the OSMP, Offensive Security Metasploit Professional. The certification exam will be based on hands-on exercises requiring the student to prove they have mastered the MSF in all aspects. The Certification will only be available to those who purchase the videos – our way of encouraging donations to HFC. Remember – all proceeds go towards a very good cause.

The course is almost ready and we expect a public release around late August, 2009.

Check out our BackTrack Videos and Resources, our BackTrack PDF, and our “Introduction to BackTrack 4” movie.

We’ve opened up new subforums for this release. Please report bugs and suggestions

As usual, we ask that you do not link directly to our mirrored ISOs. We are trying to get a rough download count for BT4pf.

If you would like to link to our iso, please use :

http://www.remote-exploit.org/cgi-bin/fileget?version=bt4-prefinal-iso

md5sum and sha256sum can be found here, here and here. The Remote Exploit Website News page will be soon updated.

Enjoy

Remote Exploit Team

via Offensive Security – Information Security Blog » BackTrack Pre Final – Public Release and Download.

A beta version of Microsoft's free antivirus software – codenamed Morro – will soon be available from the company's website, according to a report.

Reuters says Microsoft employees are already testing the software ahead of a broader rollout in the near future. The company declined to provide a specific date for Morro's release, but said the trial version would be available “soon”.

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Microsoft announced its plan to replace its Windows Live OneCare security software with a free antivirus product last November.

The company said at the time that Morro would help encourage more people to take antivirus seriously, claiming nearly 50 percent of Windows users don't have an antivirus tool installed on their PC.

I hate keys. I am on a mission to dispose of them all. There is currently a key pad to enter the SparkFun building, a key pad on my home, and RFID to get into the interior rooms at SparkFun. It is my goal to get rid of the last key in my pocket, my Mazda key I combined the Nike+iPod device and my key fob, with an Arduino Pro Mini, to create the iFOB.

A new application has been created for the iPhone which is designed to not only get all the latest Apple apps free of charge, but to teach a commercial iPhone pirate a lesson by opening his servers to all.

Many users of jailbroken iPhones will be familiar with the Installous application. Installous, from the people at Hackulo.us, allows the simple installation of apps previously available from the official Apple App Store – but free of charge with Appulous, of course.

This system hasn’t had much serious competition but all that changed recently when a new service/app appeared. Known as ‘Mega’, this application/system currently offers direct downloads of a staggering number of App Store apps, over 4000 at last count – a full list is available here.

So on Wed when your VP finally asks you what you are doing to combat Conficker, you can say “we used nmap”.

Two well-known Mac hackers are updating a widely used hacking toolkit, making it easier to take control of a Macintosh computer.

Over the past few days, the researchers have been quietly adding new software to the Metasploit toolkit, used by security researchers and criminals alike. Metasploit already supported Mac attacks, but until recently the Mac code hadn’t been as good as Metasploit’s Windows and Linux tools, said Dino Dai Zovi, an independent security researcher who talked about the new tools with his collaborator Charlie Miller at the CanSecWest conference Friday. “Our goal was to make Mac OS X a first-class target for Metasploit.”

Metasploit is an open-source toolkit that makes it easy for hackers to launch a barrage of attacks against a computer system.

Miller and Dai Zovi earned fame in previous years for hacking Macintosh computers at CanSecWest’s annual Pwn2Own hacking contest. On Wednesday, Miller, a researcher with Independent Security Evaluators, won $5,000 and a Mac laptop by using a previously unknown Safari vulnerability to hack into a Mac system.
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At the show, the researchers demonstrated several payload programs they have developed for Metasploit, including one called “Pic the Vic,” which can be used to snap a photograph of a Mac user who has been hacked, using the computer’s camera.

They have also ported a Windows tool, called Meterpreter, to the Mac. Meterpreter is a stealth tool that can be used to gain information from and import more software onto a hacked computer.

Ah.. One app that still makes me have a VM of XP around here… Picasa. It has FINALLY been released for the MAC. Thank you Jesus riding a motorcycle!

Last year, we challenged you to crack a code created by the “cryptanalysts” in our FBI Laboratory, who are experts in breaking ciphers of all kinds. 

 

Tens of thousands of you did so. 

 

Are you ready for round two? We hope so. But bear in mind, this year’s code is slightly more difficult.

Once again:  if you want a primer on basic cipher systems and how to break them, see the article “Analysis of Criminal Codes and Ciphers.” 

 

And if you’re a youngster, we suggest you start with the code on our Kids’ page.

Good luck!