Thursday, May 15th, 2008
A security researcher has developed malicious rootkit software for Cisco's routers, a development that has placed increasing scrutiny on the routers that carry the majority of the Internet's traffic.
Sebastian Muniz, a researcher with Core Security Technologies, developed the software, which he will unveil on May 22 at the ...
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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 ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Google's new Web Security for Enterprise service enables companies in the US and Europe to safeguard their internet traffic with protection against viruses and spyware and malicious URLs. According to Google the system "powered by Postini, stops web-borne spyware and viruses before they infiltrate your network and compromise or disable ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
I recently found myself in an airport terminal with a laptop and time to kill. Not knowing what the WiFi options were, I let Windows XP search for available wireless networks. As you can see below, one of the networks was called "Free Public WiFi". If this happens to you, ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
RedTacton is a new Human Area Networking technology that uses the surface of the human body as a safe, high speed network transmission path.
Using a new super-sensitive photonic electric field sensor, RedTacton can achieve duplex communication over the human body at a maximum speed of 10 Mbps.
RedTacton uses the minute ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Security in IT is everywhere: firewalls, proxies, anti-[spam|virus], IDS and more! But what about physical security to your IT infrastructure? Read the following story: Peter Gabriel’s web site was off the web due to a server theft! I would like to know how the thieves performed!
Why spend money to protect ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
I am pretty sure that there are a number of you out there reading this blog over a wireless network. Given that wireless is so widely distributed these days, its not uncommon that users are unaware of how insecure their wireless setup maybe.
Unfortunately one other reality is that a number ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Wireless networking technologies are a rich playground for hackers -- both ethical penetration testers and malicious attackers. There are many avenues of attack, ranging from attacking the infrastructure, the clients, or the actual traffic through man-in-the-middle sniffing and manipulation. Rich Mogull covered the wireless “Evil Twin” attack in his recent ...
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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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