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Hardening

This week, I want to discuss something very basic, but something that is also a big issue.  Hardening.  We all know we should do it, so why do so many fail to do it?  Whether the day is taken up with...

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Country Blocking

Welcome back to my weekly blog.  I hope you enjoyed your holidays and there are still more to come.  Again, going to keep things short this week.  I want to discuss the importance of firewalls....

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NSA Wiretapping Illegal?

This is something that I’ve been interested in lately.  I would personally love the opportunity to work for the NSA, but they have come under very heavy fire recently.  A lot of accusations are being...

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Emergency Continuity

One very important thing for beginners and students to understand is how emergency policies work together to respond in a time of crisis.  Obviously, risk management is performed to identify the risks...

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Bots, Hacks, and Backdoors

I have spent a large majority of my time as a watcher.  I’ve always been curious to know what other people know.  How hackers managed to pull off some of the things they did and not really risk getting...

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IT Ops vs. Infosec

Walk into any company that needs IT systems and ask random employees what their opinion is of their IT security.  Probably, you’ll hear, more often than not, some very negative voices.  Of course, we...

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Why is the South Korea attack hard to trace?

Why do bank robbers wear masks?  Obviously, they want to hide their identity.  For the most part, this is true of most criminal or legitimate covert activity.  If someone doesn’t want people to know...

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Programming Wetware: Planning for Success

Introduction Modern information security is a powerful tool with some very potent capability to deter and prevent cyber attacks on enterprise networks.  Firewall, VPN, CA, multifactor authentication,...

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NSA Inconsistency

The NSA just published a fact sheet, which you can read here, and here you can find a copy of the FISA order given to Verizon.  What I would like to point out here is that there is an obvious...

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Zimmerman Trial Testimony DDoS’ed

Today, testimony was being heard by a witness via Skype.  Unfortunately, this witness did not have his settings configured to hide his information.  They then sent the feed of the Skype video call over...

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