Computer security in the South Pacific

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:

• whois
• nmap
• nessus
• thc-hydra

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.

Tags:

• infosec
• pacific
• security
• usp
• spcs