Monthly Archives: May 2010

How to detect an ATM skimmer

I subscribe to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse newsletter.  If you’ve not been to this site before and you’re interested in privacy it’s a worth while bookmark.  They recently published their ‘Summer Vacation – Privacy Primer‘ which has an interesting article … Continue reading

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Google beta’s SSL for web searches

According to this H article, Google is beginning to beta a new feature of providing SSL for their standard web search service. As one commenter noted, Google is still collecting the same information from your searches but this will limit … Continue reading

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Sourcefire’s “What would you do with a pointer and a size?”

The Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team (VRT) has an interesting project related to (near) real time detection of malicious data passing through an ingress/egress point.  Specifically they’re attempting to use this technology to detect malicious PDF’s.  Unfortunately right now you can’t … Continue reading

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do you know where your pr0n is?

In 2008, Data Loss Prevention (DLP) was becoming the latest trend, hype, buzzword.  This slowed down in 2009 as with most technology because of everyone tightening their belt (purse strings).  I’ve been wondering how long it was going to take … Continue reading

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Apache’s breach disclosure and podcast interview

The Apache foundation has received a lot of praise from the security community recently for their uncensored disclosure of a recent breach.  (In case you missed the story, you can read Apache’s write up of the incident here) This goes … Continue reading

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