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WoW adds 2 factor authentication

World of Warcraft creator Blizzard Entertainment is selling hardware security devices. These small devices can fit on a key ring and provide a second form factor for authentication using something similar to a one time pad. The cost…..6 EUR. Robert over at Errata Security has a pretty good write up on it. Now if only [...]

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New blog theme

I’ve been working on a new theme for the blog. Please let me know what you think of the new theme! Thanks! –Chris

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Twitter + Security = Security Twits

When I first read about Twitter I didn’t see much value in it for me. It wasn’t until I started using it last year when I saw the usefulness for me. Twitter is an interesting communicaiton tool. I call it a cross between an IM client and a Bulletin Board. There are a lot of [...]

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Security for Web Meetings?

I am seeing an increased need and proliferation of web based collaboration tools. WebEx, GoToMeeting, MS LiveMeeting, etc. While these tools are necessary as we see people and organizations looking for collaboration, how secure are they? A couple concerns come to mind. NOTE: I have not done any research into this nor read much of [...]

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ICANN shutting down a Chinese registrar?

I saw this today on Slashdot. There is an ICANN registrar in China who is apparently not living up to its obligations to verify proper contact information for people registering domain names. The registrar is Xinnet Bei Gong Da Software. How bad is it you ask? Of 11,000 suspected spam domains registered through them, NONE [...]

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New job for me :)

Yup….I’m still around. For the record, working for a VAR is NOT for me. It has taken a couple of them to make me realize that if I am going to sell / represent a product it needs to be my product. Both of the VAR’s I worked for recently, GreenPages and Focus Technology Solutions [...]

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Funny comment Spam

I am doing some housecleaning (in more ways than one) and came across this comment awaiting approval from yesterday.  ”Your previous posts were real rubbish, but this is good. This one is brilliant. Your blog is getting really better.” The email address was a fake and the URL they left was to a porn site. [...]

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Savant Protection supports Google Android

I saw this press release today from my Savant Protection. According to the release Savant’s Protection has been ported over to the Google Android platform. Savant Protection is very interesting technology in the fight to prevent the spread of malware. It’s not AntiVirus in the traditional sense and it is not really white listing either. [...]

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