I read an interesting analysis of the malware involved in the March RSA breach. The analysis was done by J. Oquendo and posted over at Infosec Island. After his analysis of the malware involved he believes that “its inconclusive but points more to RBN than APT.”. Read through his analysis and see what you think. [...]
Continue reading...6. July 2011
For those Splunk users out there the 2011 Splunk Users Conference will be August 15 – 17 in San Francisco. http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAFCW I’ve been a big fan of Splunk for a number of years. Somtimes you just want to search your logs and create / modify the queries on the fly. Splunk gives [...]
Continue reading...12. June 2011
For those so inclined The sixth annual APWG eCrime Researchers Summit call for papers is out, as part of eCrime ’11. eCRS 2011 will bring together academic researchers, security practitioners, and law enforcement to discuss all aspects of electronic crime and ways to combat it, Topics of interests include (but are not limited to): [...]
Continue reading...22. August 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...24. July 2010
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
Continue reading...26. June 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...29. January 2008
Juniper Networks announced today their EX line of Switches. You can see more about the switches and a demo at http://www.juniper.net/ This new line of switches runs their JunOS operating system, rather than some other OS that would create confusion and complication. I have spoken to the local Juniper team and it seems as though [...]
Continue reading...20. November 2007
I have been following the case of Dan Egerstad from Sweden. He is the researcher who earlier this year posted the user names and passwords for 100 accounts on the Internet. Included in those accounts were ones from government embassies and major corporations. How did he obtain them? He used the Tor network. I first [...]
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6. October 2011
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