Monthly Archives: September 2009

Vanish: Expire your cloud data

Imagine being able to set expiration dates to all of your personally identifiable information on the cloud.  Think having gmail or yahoo messages go kaput after one year.  Think about your blog postings or comments left around the internet, are … Continue reading

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Schneier on “The Future of the Security Industry”

Excellent video online from the recent OWASP meeting by Bruce Schneier discussing the future of the security industry: IT Security becoming a commodity and starting to see it included with products and services instead of being provided by a third … Continue reading

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Setting up Windows Honey Pot Shares

I recently setup a honeypot share on a Windows server.  I put some very “interesting” files and directories in there (financial information, PII etc) and then enabled audit logging in Windows.  There’s a very powerful but mostly unknown Windows tool … Continue reading

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Modern day Captain Crunch

Matthew Weigman — a fat, lonely blind kid who lived with his mom in a working-class neighborhood of East Boston. In person, Weigman was a shy and awkward teenager with a shaved head who spent his days holed up in … Continue reading

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Adobe Flash control panel

I previously wrote about Flash cookies which many folks are not aware of.  Well, I’ve just stumbled across a great article which describes how to manage your Flash cookies and other settings.  The “control panel” is located on Adobe’s website: … Continue reading

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