The case of the tampered USBs

Monday, May 12th, 2008

For years, organizations have focused on the evil outsiders that were behind attacks on their networks. Firewalls, IDS, IPS technologies have come to the rescue and have resulted in impregnable walls protecting organization networks. Now with strong walls, the challenge is ensuring the trusted insiders don't walk out with the ...

Securing Your Web Browser

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

This paper will help you configure your web browser for safer internet surfing. It is written for home computer users, students, small business workers, and any other person who works with limited Information Technology (IT) support and broadband (cable modem, DSL) or dial-up connectivity. Although the information in this document may ...

24 Digital Spy Tools To Capture, Protect, And Secure Data

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Back in the '60s, when the spy craze first hit, would-be snoops had to satisfy their desire for spy gear with products like 007 cologne and aftershave, when what they really wanted was the bug Bond hid beneath the bumper of a quarry's car, or the greenscreen mapping device mounted ...

Content Injection: Hack the Hacker

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Traditional IDS/IPS systems occur at the network level, usually plugged into a spanning port on a switch. I love this concept and think it should be part of any defense in depth strategy. The two primary weaknesses in these devices are, (1) they cannot process encrypted streams and (2) they ...

Snort 2.8.1 Released

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

New Additions Target-Based support to allow rules to use an attribute table describing services running on various hosts on the network. Eliminates reliance on port-based rules. Support for GRE encapsulation for both IPv4 & IPv6. Support for IP over IP tunneling for both IPv4 & IPv6. SSL preprocessor to allow ability to not inspect ...