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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 [...]
Continue reading...Who’s going to Defcon?
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 Defcon
Continue reading...Twitter + Security = Security Twits
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...Juniper launches a switch line
29. January 2008
Juniper Networks announced today their EX line of Switches. You can see more about the switches and a demo at 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...No end to end encryption….no privacy
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 [...]
Continue reading...Hushmail turns over encrypted email to the Feds
15. November 2007
And you thought your Hushmail email was secure and private….. blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/11/encrypted-e-mai.html –Chris Technorati Tags: Hushmail, encrytped email
Continue reading...The best VC post I have seen
31. October 2007
There are a couple of VC blogs / sites that I read religiously. They are Fred Wilson from AVC, avc.blogs.com and Paul Graham, www.paulgraham.com/articles.html Even though I am no longer looking for VC funding I still try to keep my eye on that ball. You never know when you might need one. Yesterday Fred Wilson [...]
Continue reading...CSI 2007 Annual Conference
23. October 2007
Its that time of year. The Computer Security Institute is holding its 2007 Annual conference in Alexandria, VA. The dates are November 3rd to November 9th. For those of you going you can get $100 of the full conference fee by using the code CSI2007. Conference details and registration can be found at www.csiannual.com. It [...]
Continue reading...- Record IM video on the network?
- Analyzing a malicious PDF file
- WoW adds 2 factor authentication
- New blog theme
- Twitter + Security = Security Twits
- Security for Web Meetings?
- NAC Panel Discussion: What is the state of NAC?
- ICANN shutting down a Chinese registrar?
- 3 open InfoSec positions at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- Shoot yourself in the foot in any language
- Your favorite Mac apps? (8)
- Should I renew my CISSP? (7)
- NAC Panel Discussion: What is the state of NAC? (6)
- Is Data Leak Prevention the next “big thing” in security? (6)
- NitroSecurity files for IPO (5)
- Whitedust.net called it quits? (5)
- Over reliance on industry analysts (4)
- VA loses another PC…36,000 at risk (4)
- Stopping 100% of web proxies? (4)
- Juniper launches a switch line (4)
- Intel to acquire McAfee for $7.7 Billion
- How-to on securing PDF documents
- Most dangerous keywords to search for
- MIT Lincoln Lab Network Security Software
- NAC Panel Discussion: What is the state of NAC?
- Record IM video on the network?
- WoW adds 2 factor authentication
- ICANN shutting down a Chinese registrar?
- Savant Protection supports Google Android
- Detecting Bot Command and Control Channels
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22. August 2010
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