Security Links for March 2016

Here are some new security-related (for the most part ;) links from the month of March 2016

Bitcoin Wisdom – Trading-type Terminal for Bitcoin – https://bitcoinwisdom.com/

Zone Transfer Tutorial – https://digi.ninja/projects/zonetransferme.php

Debian Hardening Wiki – https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening

Standard Password Manager for UNIX – https://www.passwordstore.org/

Is your Browser safe against tracking? – https://panopticlick.eff.org

Have I been Pwned? – https://haveibeenpwned.com/

CryptoPals -Cool CTF for Crypto – http://cryptopals.com/

Nice Tool to Tell What CMS A Site is Running – https://whatcms.org/

A simple SSL/TLS proxy with mutual authentication for securing non-TLS services – https://github.com/square/ghostunnel

Find out if a site is down globally – http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

DNS Zone Transfer Tool – https://github.com/stryngs/axfr-tools

Nice Coding Guide for N00bs – http://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/pgubook/ProgrammingGroundUp-1-0-booksize.pdf

Ransomware seems to be popular these days. Here’s a site that tracks the variants – https://ransomwaretracker.abuse.ch/tracker/

Need I say more? – http://www.routerpwn.com/

Security Links for February 2016

Made a blunder on the droplet that runs this blog on Digital Ocean and lost the previous two security link blogs. Luckily had a backup from August that I was able to restore from. Anyways, here’s the security links for February 2016.

Application Security Learning Resources – https://github.com/paragonie/awesome-appsec#application-security-learning-resources

A Dead Simple TCP Intercepting Proxy Tool Set – https://www.praetorian.com/blog/trudy-a-dead-simple-tcp-intercepting-proxy-mitm-vm

Let’s Encrypt Audit – https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/independent-audits-of-lets-encrypt-finished/6518

Introducing the Keybase filesystem – Sounds like a sane approach to encrypting data at rest – https://keybase.io/docs/kbfs

Securely Hash Passwords – https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/211/how-to-securely-hash-passwords

An Interesting Online Scanner – https://www.censys.io/

Another Attempt at Creating a Secure Linux Distro – https://www.parabola.nu/

An open-source network simulator/emulator hybrid (Tor & Bitcoin) – https://shadow.github.io/
For Encrypting/Decrypting Data on the Fly – https://encipher.it/

Red Team Field Manual – http://www.amazon.com/Rtfm-Red-Team-Field-Manual/dp/1494295504/ref=pd_bxgy_14_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=19V4X7X4WW7215V446N7

Decentralized DNS 
for Blockchain Applications – https://blockstack.org/

Github Bounty Program – https://bounty.github.com/index.html#open-bounties

Send An Urgent Message to a Friend When your in Trouble (i.e. Feds are knocking at your door) – http://www.snapmailemergency.com/

Get your cheap exploits here – http://cheapbugs.net/#home