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. […]
February 19, 2008 – 8:15 pm
I came across this paper on Detecting bot C&C channels in network traffic. It is from the Georgia Institute of Technology. An interesting read if you follow the bot problem.
–Chris
Technorati Tags: bot, command and control, channel
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February 13, 2008 – 7:57 pm
I saw a reference to this article recently. I knew how Tor worked but never really go under the hood of the exit servers. Well apparently some others have and are setting up their own exit servers for nefarious purposes. It seems as though if you setup an exit server you can specify what ports […]
January 6, 2008 – 9:50 am
In this new age of Ajax / Web 2.0, is anyone still blocking Javascript at the perimeter or disabling it in the browser?? I remember when this was a significant issue…and it may still be one. It seems like the advantages (perceived or not) of real time page updates provided by Ajax are out weighing […]
October 23, 2007 – 11:01 pm
My company, GreenPages, has openings for the following positions:
Director of SMB & Education Solutions
Senior Network Engineer
If you or someone you know is interested send me an email, chris@infosecpodcast.com or Skype at chrisharrington
Thanks!
–Chris
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August 22, 2007 – 10:16 am
Ok…not security related but I thought it was interesting. A German company is producing a backpack mounted Laser system apparently designed for cleaning thinks. Think of the uses…..
Is it me or are we just missing Harold Ramis wearing a white jumpsuit?
–Chris
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August 20, 2007 – 6:38 am
I was poking around IronGeek’s site tonight and came across the Hacking Illustrated section. In it there are dozens of videos (in both avi and swf format) on subjects such as:
Remote Password Auditing Using THC-Hydra
Setting up a simple web proxy with CGIProxy
Using Cain and the AirPcap USB adapter to crack WPA/WPA2
Using SysInternals’ […]
August 16, 2007 – 8:57 am
There have been a couple of security vendor press releases recently talking about how they solve the issue of anonymous web proxies. These proxies are web servers that allow users to circumvent URL / content filtering systems to access sites that may be prohibited at work. There are a ton of proxies for MySpace, for […]
