PaulDotCom Security Weekly Episode 177 - Video (Stories)
We managed to get the video for the second half of episode 177 where we discuss the stories of the week. The audio on the Skype side was a little quiet (sorry!). Come watch as we broadcast from the workshop and smoke cigars! Audio release coming soon (better quality audio than the video).

PaulDotCom Security Weekly - Episode 176 Part 2 - November 19, 2009
Paul talks about building a security lab on the cheap, and a SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE!!! Full Show Notes Direct Audio Download Hosts: Larry "HaxorTheMatrix" Pesce, Paul "PaulDotCom" Asadoorian, John Strand, Mick Douglas,

Attacking MSSQL with Metasploit
Now a days hacking has shifted from attacking systems to know how they work or for the trill of getting into a system for the sake of the hunt but many hackers are doing it for profit, in fact many companies around the world and states are employing hacker for information both for political and financial gain. One of the places where most of this information resides is in databases and one of the most popular databases in enterprises and governments now a days is Microsoft SQL Server and on this blog post I will cover some of the attacks you can do against this system with Metasploit 3.3. The Microsoft SQL Server Product is in fact a suite of products compromise of several servic

Why You Need Echo Mirage
One of the trends I see in malware going forward is more of a focus on obfuscation. If we take Conficker as an example of things to come, the future will be interesting indeed. What exactly does this mean to you?  Well, it means that traditional detection techniques are going to be more and more limited. Even the major AV vendors are starting to see the end of traditional black-list approaches.  Also, here at PaulDotCom we have had quite a few post and discussions on how blacklist AV is broken.  We will start seeing more and more malware that uses contextual payloads to generate a "unique" executable for every segment in the infection group.  We also will start seeing more a

Day after Thanksgiving: Hoff Friday
What better way to emerge from your (Wild) Turkey stupor than to join the PDC crew and guest Christofer Hoff live at 20:30 EST on Friday November 27th for Episode 177 of PaulDotCom Security Weekly! We promise not to ask you to pass the gravy or overstay our welcome in exchange for your agreement to not Hassle the Hoff. As a special treat, the PDC crew will be recording from Larry's barn! At least, Larry told us it's his b