7MS #151: Friday Infosec News and Links Roundup

Here are some of my favorite stories and links for this week!

Training opportunities

• NMAP course from Udemy - $24 for a limited time (I think)
• How to handle the the thoughtless compliance zombie hordes - by BHIS is coming up Tuesday February 16th from 2-3 ET. The price is free!
• Pivot Project touts itself as "a portfolio of interesting, practical, enlightening, and often challenging hands-on exercises for people who are trying to improve their mastery of important cybersecurity skills.

News

• It is absurdly easy for attackers to destroy your Web site in 10 minutes.
• Secure your home network better using advice from the SANS Ouch! newsletter.
• Chromodo (part of Comodo's Internet Security)disables same-origin policy which basically disables Web security. Wha?!
• Virus total now looks at firmware images as well.
• We can soon wave goodbye to Java in the browser forever!. Kinda.

Tools

• Here's a nice SSL/TLS-checking checklist for pentesters.
• Kali is moving to a rolling release configuration pretty soon. Update yours before April 15!