7MS #151: Friday Infosec News and Links Roundup

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

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.

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.

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!