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Intel to acquire McAfee for $7.7 Billion

Most of you have probably heard that Intel announced that it will acquire McAfee for almost $8 billion dollars. What I find interesting is that Intel paid $48 per share or about 60% more than the $30 per share where McAfee had been trading at. There are a lot of discussions about why Intel did [...]

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Who’s going to Defcon?

I will be out in Las Vegas for Defcon. Wed night I will be jumping from vendor party to vendor party. I am meeting a couple colleagues on Friday night. If anyone is interested in grabbing a few beers let me know. Technorati Tags: Defcon Defcon

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How-to on securing PDF documents

A friend of mine pointed me to a good article on securing PDF documents. http://secforall.info/2009/06/29/securing-pdfs/ It’s a good tutorial on how to password protect, digitally sign and certify PDF documents. Now if only we could have some intelligence in email clients (or maybe a setting in Acrobat Reader?) that would prohibit or at least strongly [...]

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Updating my feed location…thanks Google

Well thanks to a borked Feedburner to Google transfer I need to update my feed location.  The current feed feeds.feedburner.com/wwwInfosecpodcastcom will be moved to feeds2.feedburner.com/infosecpodcastcom one week from today, 6/11/09. –Chris Technorati Tags: Feedburner, Google Sucks

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Most dangerous keywords to search for

Dancho Danchev posted on the release of a McAfee report that analyzes what keywords are the most dangerous in terms of the search results linking to malware. “Upon searching for 2,658 unique popular keywords and phrases across 413,368 unique URLs, McAfee’s research concludes that lyrics and anything that includes ‘free” has the highest risk percentage [...]

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MIT Lincoln Lab Network Security Software

MIT Lincoln Laboratory has developed a Network Security Analysis application known as NetSPA. In short, I am very impressed with this tool. NetSPA (Network Security Planning Architecture) correlates firewall rules / ACL’s with vulnerability data such as Nessus output. This tool then visually plots attack paths through an interactive interface that lets you model different [...]

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3 open InfoSec positions at MIT Lincoln Laboratory

We currently have 3 Information Security positions open at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. The first position is Information Technology Security Team Lead. It is position #914 on the Employment page. Rather than re-hashing all the details you can read about it there. The other 2 positions do not have job postings up yet. We need 2 [...]

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NAC Panel Discussion: What is the state of NAC?

This morning at work I moderated a panel discussion on Network Access Control. The audience was made up of IT Security staff from several research and development organizations. There were representatives from 3 vendors in attendance as well. The audience represented a good cross section of NAC adopters. Some have had it for 2 years, [...]

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