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When Defenses are Offensive
Cory Doctrow has a good article on the differences between the speed of detected an attack and the automated response to it and the slowness in recovering from a mis-applied block. As usual Cory outlines it is brilliantly simple, straight forward terms that anyone can understand. I used this tactic quite a bit when pen-testing in a…
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MS Destroys the Consumer AV Market: Or Did They?
In Nov 2008, Microsoft announced that they are going to start offering free anti-virus/spyware/trojan/rootkit protection. Say bye-bye to Symantec and Mcafee’s cash cows. It looks like it took about 5 years to make it happen assuming they are using the technology they aquired back in 2003 via GeCAD. So the big question is how long…
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Alumnus hacks Texas A&M system
My dad is a Aggie, sorry to see his school can’t secure their systems. If anyone is from Texas they know that the Aggie’s are the butt of many jokes. (Think Polish jokes, Texas style). One of my favorites: How do you confuse an Aggie? Put him in a round room and tell him to…
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These are the crazy people in your security neighborhood
When you have been around the IT/Security space as long as I have you run into to a lot of whacky people. After a while you begin sorting and classifying them into nice convenient stereotypes. Over the next few weeks I will post my own stereotypes that I have discovered. Hope you get a laugh…
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The Business Case for WAFs + Testing
Who’s up for another IT security story? I’m was sitting on my Xrocker wondering whether I should get back on Call of Duty or type something quick for this week. I opted for the latter and this is why you are reading this post. Here is a real world story about a customer of ours,…
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Hackers Buy Ads to Install Malware
Last month, I was contacted by a client to help resolve some security issues on her website (brabbly.com) When I visited the site, there did not seem to be any underlying issues, except for multiple pop ups, which I thought were legitimate ads from the site. However, I was wrong. On talking to the owner,…
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