InfoSecPodcast.com » Education http://www.infosecpodcast.com Information Security related news, opinions and ramblings Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:04:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 New blog theme http://www.infosecpodcast.com/2008/06/new-blog-theme/ http://www.infosecpodcast.com/2008/06/new-blog-theme/#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:06:09 +0000 Chris Harrington http://www.infosecpodcast.com/?p=180 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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Showoff!!   Congrats Steve.

–Chris

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This should be interesting…..

–Chris

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I just don’t know. Given my career path as of late (a couple of CTO gigs), I’m just not sure it’s worth it. Then again, I would hate to have to sit down and memorize the difference between a wet pipe and dry pipe sprinkler system or how many rounds in an AES CBC cipher all over again.

Thoughts?

–Chris

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Thanks for your help.

–Chris

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I grabbed a copy of Sys Admin magazine from the bookstore today. I guess my subscription ran out somehow. Anyway, this issue is full of great security articles which include:

Tuning Snort by Richard Bejtlich of TaoSecurity fame
3 free tools to detect spyware / malware at the perimeter by Matt Jonkman, founder of Bleedingsnort.com
Extrusion Detection with Aanval and Bleeding Snort by Russ McRee
Web Server vuln assessments with Nikto / NiktoRAT by Brian Reilly

Plus a couple more articles. You should pick it up or better yet subscribe.

–Chris

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