Archive for April, 2008
Friday, April 25th, 2008
In the old days, as our parents frequently love to remind us, life was much simpler. You bought a computer, and when you finally figured out what you wanted to do with it, you assembled a list and went down to your local Egghead for some software. It was straightforward, ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Well, I finally jumped on that social networking bandwagon called Twitter. I signed up for Twitter about an hour or so ago just to check it out and see what all the hype was about. I know, I'm slow. But they always say that a person hears or sees something ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
The Internet is slowly inching closer to ratcheting up the security of its Domain Name System (DNS) server architecture: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) plans to go operational with the secure DNS technology, DNSSEC, later this year in one of its domains.
ICANN officials said the organization ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Earlier I wrote about my proposed Tactical Network Security Monitoring Platform. Today I finally sat down and installed the operating systems I need on this system to create a portable tactical forensics and investigation platform. I did not want to use my main work laptop for this sort of work ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Dating back to the end of February, we have been tracking test runs of malicious PDF messages to very specific targets. These PDF files exploit the recent vulnerability CVE-2008-0655.
Ever since the end of March, beginning of April, the amount of samples seen in the wild has significantly increased. Interestingly enough, ...
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