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SecurityForest.com is a collaboratively edited Forest consisting of Trees which anyone can contribute to. SecurityForest's trees are specific security repositories that are categorized for practical reasons.The technologies currently in use in these repositories are based on Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki) technology and CVS (Concurrent Versioning System) (http://www.cvshome.org/) technology. Depending on the species of the tree - the suitable technology will be used. SecurityForest.com is a collection of repositories (trees) for the community - by the community. In other words - the updating, modifying and improving can be done by anyone in the community.

[edit] ExploitTree Updated: Loni 13:18, 16 Dec 2004 (IST) ExploitTree currently countains over 3,100 Exploits ExploitTree Client Utility 0.54 has been released! ExploitTree_Update_Phase_1 is underway and going strong (over 1,900 exploits have been added) - Come and help!

[edit] Featured Items Updated: Loni 03:30, 6 Jan 2005 (IST) EducationTree has replaced the TutorialTree and is currently in BETA STAGE! BookTree has has been released and is currently in BETA STAGE! Featured Items Archive

[edit] Site News & Tips Updated: Loni 17:56, 23 Nov 2004 (IST) User Page protection now available! SecurityForest - Public_Release no.1 has been released The search engine is best used when categories is selected in the search options under user preferences - HERE (http://www.securityforest.com/wiki/index.php/Special:Preferences#prefsection-7) User List (http://www.securityforest.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Listusers&limit=1500&offset=0) How to Track Changes in the forest SecurityForest now supports RSS The TLD's .net & .org of SecurityForest have been aquired News & Tips Archive

[edit] Security News Updated: Loni 12:56, 10 Jan 2005 (IST) Top 25 Innovations of the Past 25 Years (http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/01/03/cnn25.top25.innovations/index.html) Microsoft's Gates endures PC crash during keynote speech at U.S. tech show (http://www.canada.com/news/story.html?id=7d5a65b1-8260-44c6-8354-ff4a1ef5d39b) A Pizza Box for Your Laptop (http://www.humanbeans.net/powerpizza/) Anatomy of a Spy Satellite (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/space/20050103/sc_space/anatomyofaspysatellite&e=1) Whoppix 2.6 has been released (http://www.whoppix.net/download.php) and includes Securityforest's ExploitTree Response from Marc Maiffret (Eeye) (http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-12/0697.html) - there are no backdoors in Iris nor SecureIIS Multiple Backdoors found in eEye Products (IRIS and SecureIIS) (http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-12/0684.html) China's IPv6 Network Officially Up And Running (http://www.linuxworld.com/story/47609.htm) The 50 most powerful people in networking (http://www.nwfusion.com/power/2004/12270450most.html) Santy phpBB First Analysis (http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?date=2004-12-25) Microsoft Internet Explorer XP SP2 Fully Automated Remote Compromise (http://freehost07.websamba.com/greyhats/sp2rc-analysis.htm) Microsoft Windows LoadImage API Integer Buffer overflow, Microsoft Windows Kernel ANI File Parsing Crash Vulnerability, Microsoft Windows Kernel ANI File Parsing Dos Vulnerability, Microsoft Windows winhlp32.exe Heap Overflow and Integer Buffer overflow Vulnerability (http://www.xfocus.net/flashsky/icoExp/index.html) Thnx to Blad3 for the above 3 links! Security News Archive

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• Plant a Seed - Anyone can plant a seed and let it grow with the help of the community into one of SecurityForest.com trees.
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To get started using and editing the forest, create a new user and check out our Sandbox. For more information, see the Wiki User's Guide (http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide) for usage and configuration help and the Wiki Tutorial (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial) (of wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org)) which consists of a series of pages which will give you the basic skills and knowledge you'll need to start helping in the forest.