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Second Life users need to be cautious with Quicktime embedded videos in the game as it may be used to pick your pocket of Linden Dollars.

Charles Miller and Dino Dai Zovi, of Independent Security Evaluators, have found that by using a flaw in Quicktime, they can not only pick the pocket of any user within 100 virtual feet of the player, they can take complete control of the avatar. Once the account has been taken over, the hackers can then use that avatar to go to other lands, embed their virus loaded video, and it will continue to spread from land to land.  read more »

Dear All,

For those who celebrates,secgeeks team wishes happy diwali and a prosperous new year.
May the joy, cheer,

Mirth and merriment

Of this divine festival

Surround you forever.

May the happiness,

That this season brings

Brighten your life

And, hope the year

Brings you luck and

Fulfills all your dearest dreams!

Happy deepavali…..

"WISHING YOU AND YOUR FAMILY A VERY HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS DIWALI"

Update: for those who don't know here is a link on wikipedia:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwali

Cheers,

Team -SecGeeks

Do you like what you've seen of secgeeks.com so far? If you'd like to get involved, we're looking for new additions to our team!

we're looking for some talented and inspired writers with knowledge on security related topics to contribute content.

There are a number of areas where you may be able to help out.

* Articles - feature-length content including everything from editorials to tutorials
* News - medium-length content dealing with current events
* Tips - short computing tips  read more »

Dear Users,

Once again we take immense pleasure to announce that secgeeks.com is one of the media partners of BlackHat 2008 DC,Amsterdam and Las Vegas briefings. Thanks for all of your support and someone from SecGeeks will be there in all the briefings. If you would like to meet us there, then please send a mail to secgeek@secgeeks.com
we are looking forward to create some good contacts with you guys.

Cheers,
SecGeek

so folks once agian i changed the theme as i think me and all other people who uses secgeeks got bored of the old theme?
post your comments do u like it or not?

here at secgeeks we have our spam filters configured which learn by the time.recently i have seen some comment on this site which are at the first glance,appears to be a generic comment containing news but in the reality they contents URLs to the spam site.
spammers are working hard on new techniques like MP3,PDF and now this news comment spam but i dont think all such things will work properly.
oh and did i mention that on my efax account too i recive lots of spam?so security folks,u should try adding efax protection support in your antispam solutions.

What it is?

A windows based packet replay utility.Useful for replaying the captured network traffic from pcap files.

Where can i get it?
http://secgeeks.com/PReplay.zip

How to use it?
Refer to Readme.txt

Where to send Feature request,bugs,suggestion?
Send mail to secgeek_nospam@secgeeks.com

Is it open source?
No.

What else?
nothing use it and link to secgeeks.com if u like it.

Dear All,

This December SecGeeks will complete 2 years.We would like to thank our esteemed Users,Visitors,Sponser,Friends and Others, who's support enabled us to achieve this milestone.We are improving with time and making various changes which has helped our users to stay up to date with the latest trends in the industry.
Once agian we would like to thank you all and hope that you will continue to support us.

Thanks alot!!
SecGeek

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The Mpack toolkit has been uploaded to rapidshare. get it here:-
Download Here....

From last 2-3 days i am receiving the spam mails for winning lottery.i am wondering what happened to gmail's spam filters?why they are not filtering such mails?is anyone of u are facing the same problem?bellow is the screenshot:-

hi,

today i installed squid on my local lan to reduce the network usage.its simple u need to download the squid from here
and install it.then configure ur browsers to use port 8080 and ur done.

nice huh?

Hi,
If u want to search a list of files for a particular keyword or text string on windows then what will u do?obviously u don't have much options.i was in the same jeopardy sometime ago and then i got wingrep tool.it is awecome and a must have for everyone.
get it here

So folks recently on one of my site when i was updating something,i notices some strange php files with the random numeric names like 32458.php,12135.php and so on.at first i though those were the files related to my sites scripts and i shouldn't be worried about that.but then when i searched in google for my sites suddenly what i have seen was enough to shock me.my site was displaying porn,gambling,cracks, warez.that was a shocking thing my server,my site and they are displaying all such bullshit?  read more »

recently for one of the packet fuzzers i coded,i wanted to add a feature to send fragmented packets.here is the code i wrote according to the RFC:-

/*This function fragments the ip packets and sends them on the wire
parameter passed:MTU,pcap header ,packet len,vlan header present or not
return value:none
follows RFC791 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc791.txt
*/

void FragmentAndSendIPPackets(struct pcap_pkthdr *pktheader,u_char* Packet,u_int len){
ethernet* EthHeader;
ip* IPHeader;
ip* OrigIPHeader;
ip* NewIPHeader;
u_short NFB=0;
u_short MTU;
u_short OrigFragOff;
u_short OrigMF;  read more »

We strongly belive that we can increase and improve our knowledge by sharing it with others. Secgeeks is what we started as a hobby to learn from others and to share our little bit of knwoledge with others. On this site you will find every kind of people from a novice user who is trying to understand the tidbits of information security to an advance user who has coded many exploit and know the internals of diffrent Operating Systems and Networking Protocols. Our aim is to provide a free platform over the internet to exchange the thoughts and knowledge and we hope that you will find our this little effort usefull. So please feel free to join this site and upload, publish your articles, blogs, stories or any other tools which you like to share with others. we can be reached at:- info _AT_ infys.net

Hi All,

Do you want to attend the BlackHat 2008 Amsterdam Briefings?If yes then we can help you in that :)
We are starting a Contest on Secgeeks,in which you have to post links or write blogs on the security related news and topics and the person with the most Quality posts will win a Pass for BlackHat Amsterdam 2008 Briefings.
So start posting and prepare to go to BlackHat.

Note:This start from Today 20/01/08 and will be end on 01/03/08.
Winners will be announced on 02/03/08.

Terms and Conditions:  read more »

See how 3 ppl compromise the hi tech security of a car showroom.here are the links:-

Part 1
Part 2
Part3
Part 4

Hi All,

We have created two widgets for SecGeeks by which you can access secgeek.com from anywhere from your mobile or from your PC or Laptop.If you want to get it on Mobile then simply use the widget bellow:-

if you want to use it on your Site/Blog/Forums/Etc. then use the widget bellow:-  read more »

Dude Vanwinkle was a nice friend of mine and i enjoyed reading his posts over funsec list.I was shocked to know that he is no more with us.
i never met him personally but i had frequent chats with him over IM.He is very knowledgeable and helpful person and i enjoyed talking to him.i will surely miss him :(
"he who shall be missed, rest in peace."
RIP Dude Vanwinkle.

-SecGeek