November 20, 2007 – 9:32 pm
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 learned […]
November 15, 2007 – 2:50 pm
And you thought your Hushmail email was secure and private…..
blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/11/encrypted-e-mai.html
–Chris
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August 15, 2007 – 11:39 pm
A bad network card in a PC is blamed for a network outage that stranded more than 17,000 people at Los Angeles International Airport last weekend. Here is the story.
Ouch…
–Chris
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I saw this article on Network World that talks about Illinois’ PKI program and what steps they are taking to keep it moving forward. As someone who worked in the PKI space for a while it is interesting to see PKI still in action, and moving forward. Public Key Cryptography is a great technology that […]
I read today that KisMAC, the wireless sniffer for Mac’s, is no longer being developed in Germany. The reason behind this is apparently some changes in German law the prohibits the exporting of security software. The home page does talk about the project moving to the Netherlands to avoid such legal issues.
–Chris
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I am not sure how I missed this before but Cisco has entered into an agreement to OEM Great Bay Software’s Beacon product. Under the Cisco label this will be known as the Cisco NAC Profiler. Their appliance does a great job of idnetifying all endpoints that are not EAP enabled, i.e. those that cant […]
I remember last year someone tried to sell a Microsoft flaw (I think it was Microsoft?) on eBay. The auction was quickly taken down citing eBay’s terms of use / service violation. Last week WabiSabiLabi opened its doors as an online auction house for vulnerabilities. I took a look today and there a several vulnerabilities […]
My friend Steve pointed this out to me www.reuters.com/article/mergersNews/idUSN0927963720070709
The deal is slated to close end of Q3 and apparently Postini will stand as a subsidiary. Congrats to the Postini crew. I wonder what multiple of their forward 12 revenue that is.
–Chris
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