Monthly Archives: June 2009

Gartner: Security Software Vendor market share

There’s a quick one page recap from Gartner about the 2008 security software vendor market-share breakdown.  As in 2007 Symantec is still clearly the market leader with 22% (falling 2% from 2007).  In second place is McAfee with 10%. Not … Continue reading

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2009 Verizon Business (Cybertrust) Data Breach report

I was recently lucky enough to attend a talk by Sourcefire CTO Martin Roesch (creator of Snort).  He mentioned the Cybertrust Breach report which is wotrh a read. One of the interesting facts is that the time from an initial … Continue reading

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Tip of the Day: Destroying Optical Media

Another tidbit I’ve picked up from reading Bruce Schneier’s “on Security” was how to destroy optical media (cd’s, dvd’s).  Usually I crack them in half or scratch them with a sharp object. It turns out another method is to place … Continue reading

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Free (Credit) Fraud Alerts

I’m reading Bruce Schneier’s “Schneier on Security” which is a collection of his best essays and articles. One interesting item I came across was the mention of Fraud Alerts.  People registered with the US credit agencies (Transunion, Equifax, Experian) can … Continue reading

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Google Wave

At the recent Google I/O conference in San Francisco the next big Google project was announced, Google Wave.  Imagine being able to instant message and collaborate with multiple people in real time.  Now chat rooms have been around for a … Continue reading

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Great “defeating the firewall” article

I stumbled across an excellent article on freenode #security.  Does your employer use content filtering?  Are you sick of being restricted when using free wifi hotspots?  How about a hotel charging for wifi? The article talks about methods to circumvent … Continue reading

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SSL Strip

There’s a nice tool that will perform SSL man in the middle attacks.  In layman’s terms this means when this tool is run on a gateway it will create a clear text HTTP stream on the network (that you can … Continue reading

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Microsoft’s google killer: Bing

Now that Microsoft’s Bing has been out for a couple weeks I’m wondering everyone’s impression.  I like the simple interface with minimal ad’s and clutter.  Nothing like the MSN search.  It looks awfully similar to Google’s interface. However, I’m very … Continue reading

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System7 wordpress tweaks

Over the weekend I fixed a few issues we were having with the site.  Those items included: “Next & Previous entries” links were not working “Categories” links at the bottom of the page were not working correctly Fixed Profile, Dashboard … Continue reading

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Windows Forensics tip of the day…

The Windows page/swap file usually contains very recent information of a user’s activity.  Data is usually overwritten fairly quickly  — depending on how “busy” the system is.  The page file can store potentially sensitive and incriminating evidence.  The legality of … Continue reading

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