About
GNUCITIZEN exists to advance public understanding of offensive and defensive information security technologies, to educate and share information with its members and the public on best practices, tools and techniques for such coverage and to represent the interests of its members.
Our mission is to act as a focus for research on a wide range of defensive and offensive information security technologies. We do this by performing tailor-made tiger team and non-standard assessments and penetration tests. We also conduct our own research, commission research from outside, start projects and ideas, organize and participate in working groups, conferences and seminars to draw together the work of academic and underground specialists in a wide range of areas.
GNUCITIZEN acts on behalf of the whitehat community and it is a passionate adherent of all the ethical principles followed by the information security scene.
The Group
The GNUCITIZEN Group is a small community of individuals and their projects. The group shapes the face of the GNUCITIZEN Network and it is responsible for the majority of the work published under the GNUCITIZEN domains. The main purpose of the group is to share information between its members and communicate that information with the rest of the world by the means of blog posts, papers, research materials and projects.
Admissions to the group happen on an invite only basis but we keep an open mind for opportunities. Therefore, if you are the kind of person who enjoys a good discussion, who is keen on sharing and is prepared to lead, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us. We are a small group but our work has successfully influenced many areas of the information security scene.
Among the group members you will find artists, programmers, security and public relations experts. You don’t have to be a technical guru in order to be part of the group. All you need is passion and a need to share your knowledge and experience. We live by these very basic principles.
Open Source
100% of our work is published under the most common open source licenses available today. We truly believe in the open source movement and do everything possible to support it. You can find the majority of our open source work under the code.gnucitizen.org domain. Our code repository contains also the sources of various projects that haven’t materialized just yet – a lot of experimental projects but good ideas nevertheless.
The source code repository is also open for your work as well. If you are working on an security project and you would like to be included as part of the GNUCITIZEN network, please let us know from our contact page.
Additional Updates
For additional updates you can follow us at:
- Technorati – Top 5K in Technorati
- Twitter – experimenting with Twiter micro blogging platform
- YouTube – we have a dedicated YouTube channel
- Facebook – for the social network fans
- Flickr – all our pictures are belong to Flickr
- LinkedIn – we have a dedicated group on LinkedIn
- Wikipedia – our wiki page
- Google Books – books which discuss our work
…or you can visit some of our projects:
- HoH – international hacker community
- Blogsecurify – social media security experiment
- Netsecurify – network security experiment
- Websecurify – web security services experiment
- Securls – information security intelligence network experiment
- Secapps – saas security applications experiment
The complete list of all entities under the GNUCITIZEN hat can be found at gnucitizen.net.
Network Campaigns
Here you will be able to find what we refer to as the GNUCITIZEN Network Campaigns
. The Network Campaigns represent GNUCITIZEN's ethos and ideologies and showcase our current and future work.
You can spread the word by linking directly to any campaign. If you have an idea for a campaign, do not hesitate to share it by getting in touch with us from our contact page.
If you have a proposal, suggestion, question or correction, please get in touch with us from our contact page.
