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New mass-mailing worm spreading like crazy – VBMania
Normally I let the vendors communicate this stuff out but this is spreading like crazy. A mass-mailing worm that McAfee is calling VBMania is on the loose. We’ve stopped an ton of these this afternoon. More information here: http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2010/09/09/widespread-reporting-of-here-you-have-virus/ –Chris
Continue reading...Intel to acquire McAfee for $7.7 Billion
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...How-to on securing PDF documents
27. December 2009
A friend of mine pointed me to a good article on securing PDF documents. http://secforall.info/2009/06/29/securing-pdfs/ It’s a good tutorial on how to password protect, digitally sign and certify PDF documents. Now if only we could have some intelligence in email clients (or maybe a setting in Acrobat Reader?) that would prohibit or at least strongly [...]
Continue reading...Most dangerous keywords to search for
4. June 2009
Dancho Danchev posted on the release of a McAfee report that analyzes what keywords are the most dangerous in terms of the search results linking to malware. “Upon searching for 2,658 unique popular keywords and phrases across 413,368 unique URLs, McAfee’s research concludes that lyrics and anything that includes ‘free” has the highest risk percentage [...]
Continue reading...MIT Lincoln Lab Network Security Software
10. February 2009
MIT Lincoln Laboratory has developed a Network Security Analysis application known as NetSPA. In short, I am very impressed with this tool. NetSPA (Network Security Planning Architecture) correlates firewall rules / ACL’s with vulnerability data such as Nessus output. This tool then visually plots attack paths through an interactive interface that lets you model different [...]
Continue reading...NAC Panel Discussion: What is the state of NAC?
29. October 2008
This morning at work I moderated a panel discussion on Network Access Control. The audience was made up of IT Security staff from several research and development organizations. There were representatives from 3 vendors in attendance as well. The audience represented a good cross section of NAC adopters. Some have had it for 2 years, [...]
Continue reading...Record IM video on the network?
1. July 2008
A friend of mine is works in the financial services market. His company has a need to record Instant Messenger video sessions (think AOL and MSN webcam ) and archive them. They need to do this on the network as opposed to having client software do it locally on the desktop. This is due to [...]
Continue reading...WoW adds 2 factor authentication
1. July 2008
World of Warcraft creator Blizzard Entertainment is selling hardware security devices. These small devices can fit on a key ring and provide a second form factor for authentication using something similar to a one time pad. The cost…..6 EUR. Robert over at Errata Security has a pretty good write up on it. Now if only [...]
Continue reading...- Record IM video on the network?
- WoW adds 2 factor authentication
- New blog theme
- Twitter + Security = Security Twits
- Security for Web Meetings?
- 3 open InfoSec positions at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- NAC Panel Discussion: What is the state of NAC?
- ICANN shutting down a Chinese registrar?
- Shoot yourself in the foot in any language
- MIT Lincoln Lab Network Security Software
- 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)
- APT and attribution
- McAfee acquires NitroSecurity
- RIM fix your Blackberry S/MIME experience, please?
- Some things to look for in your SecurID / Remote Access logs
- WPScan – WordPress Security Scanner
- Do you digitally sign email?
- Giving a presentation on APT tonight in Manchester, NH
- RSA Security breached by APT
- New mass-mailing worm spreading like crazy – VBMania
- Intel to acquire McAfee for $7.7 Billion
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