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Cell phone virus writer arrested in Spain
Spanish police arrested a 28 year old man for writing several variants of the Cabir and Commwarrior viruses. These viruses targeted the Symbian operating system which is a popular cell phone OS. It was spread through Bluetooth connections. They are reporting that over 115,000 phones were infected. How did they catch him? He put his fiance’s [...]
Continue reading...What happened to competitive intelligence?
30. May 2007
I remember a time when you knew what your competitors were up to. You knew what the competitive features were in their products, you had to. If you didn’t there was no way to arm your sales / marketing folks with proper product positioning (say that 4 times fast). As of late it seems like [...]
Continue reading...MessageLabs Security Makeover
27. April 2007
A friend sent this in to me today. Security vendor MessageLabs is having a contest to find the 6 most security challenged small businesses in the US and UK. MessageLabs will provide the winners with one year of their products and services for free. Ok…yes I am technically breaking my own rule on posting about [...]
Continue reading...Cobia from StillSecure
12. April 2007
This is a long overdue post. I had the opportunity to have dinner with Mitchell Ashley, CTO for StillSecure, when he was in the Boston area recently. Apparently good clam chowder is somewhat of a rarity in Colorado. I had met Mitchell at the security bloggers meetup in San Francisco. Mitchell is one smart [...]
Continue reading...ESET’s NOD32 Antivirus
19. March 2007
I try not to write about or endorse products as a rule. Every now and then I come across a product that warrants a post. I’ve been a long time Symantec antivirus user, much of it a holdover from the Symantec System Center days. The latest versions, from Symantec and others like Trend Micro, [...]
Continue reading...Social Engineering, Search Engines and the Massachusetts RMV
8. March 2007
I found this little news item this morning in my feeds. Apparently a Mass resident enters mass.gov/rmv into a search engine and clicks on a link under the Sponsored Link. That brings them to a site asking for $10 to conduct business on the State’s web site. The user pays the $10 and is redirected [...]
Continue reading...NSA’s guide to securing routers
16. February 2007
My old pal’s from the System Network and Attack Center at the NSA have a great guide on securing routers. The Router Security Configuration Guide has a good amount of the networking basics and then goes into a lot of hands on configurations and best practices. Cisco routers are covered specifically but I would imagine [...]
Continue reading...Comment / Trackback Spam and blocking IP’s
13. February 2007
I just looked and I have blocked over 20,000 pieces of spam on my blog thanks to Akismet. I wish my email spam solution worked as well as Akismet does on my blog, but that’s a different discussion. The rate of spam has actually gone down for me by over 700% in the last [...]
Continue reading...- Record IM video on the network?
- ICANN shutting down a Chinese registrar?
- New blog theme
- Twitter + Security = Security Twits
- WoW adds 2 factor authentication
- Security for Web Meetings?
- New job for me :)
- Funny comment Spam
- Shoot yourself in the foot in any language
- NAC Panel Discussion: What is the state of NAC?
- Your favorite Mac apps? (8)
- Is Data Leak Prevention the next "big thing" in security? (6)
- Should I renew my CISSP? (5)
- NAC Panel Discussion: What is the state of NAC? (5)
- 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 web proxies? (4)
- Juniper launches a switch line (4)
- 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
- (ab)using Tor to spy on connections
- Anyone still blocking Javascript?
- Two job openings at my company
- Backpack mounted Laser
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26. June 2007
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