Packet Storm Security is a website

Website

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 offering current and historical computer security

Computer security

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 tools, exploit

Exploit (computer security)

An exploit is a piece of software, a chunk of data, or sequence of commands that takes advantage of a bug, glitch or vulnerability in order to cause unintended or unanticipated behavior to occur on computer software, hardware, or something electronic...

s , and security advisories. It is operated by a group of security enthusiasts that publish new security information and offer tools for educational and testing purposes. The site was originally created by Ken Williams who sold it in 1999 to Kroll O'Gara and just over a year later, it was given back to the security community. While at Kroll O'Gara, Packet Storm awarded Mixter $10,000 in a whitepaper contest dedicated to the mitigation of distributed denial of service attacks .