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29.8.06

Computer security in the South Pacific


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To do my bit to rectify the low level of computer security awareness in Fiji I made a presentation to the South Pacific Computer Society entitled "How Hackers Do It". It was a live demonstration of the life cycle of a computer break-in using freely available and well documented tools such as:

It was a fast paced presentation that was a lot of fun for the gathered audience - and the presenter as well! I will post the slides as soon as they are online.

Post script: whois a hacker tool? Ok, it isn't really, but a whois query is the best way to find out your target's DNS server address and the email addresses of two improtant users - the administrative and technical contacts.

Update: My slides are now available.

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