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Are Security Efforts Misplaced?
2011-01-11 03:01:00 Warning... this is a bit of a disjointed rant! I won't reveal the person's name, but recently I chuckled when reading a Facebook status update from someone I knew in high school. His comment was along the lines of, "My boss asked me to label our switches with their IPs, so I asked if we ... More About: Security
2011: Time to Blog Again
2011-01-07 06:24:00 Lately I seem to have over extended myself. I had multiple blogs on the go and on top of my full time day job, I was developing curriculum, teaching and doing some book editing. Given my unnatural TV watching habits, that meant other things had to suffer. One of my many resolutions this year was ... More About: Time , Blog
Thank You Everyone!
2010-08-05 01:13:00 *UPDATE* Just wanted to let everyone know that I managed to throw $40.00 towards HFC, it wasn't much but I had forgotten PayPal fees and exchange rate (which is close to par but still affects $2k). Thanks again everyone! I just wanted to let everyone know that I've reached my goal to cover my bandwidth costs. I ...
iPad Review: Taking Notes Part 2
2010-08-01 02:39:00 After my last review of Note applications, I was asked to review a few more apps, some by the author and others by friends who wanted to know if programs were worth buying (I guess they prefer I spend my money ). As last time, I'm using the Pogo Sketch for all on screen ... More About: Reviews , Review , Notes , Part
I?ve Become a Cyber Pan Handler
2010-07-22 18:13:00 **Update on this on another blog post -- fees have been paid in full, should anyone chose to donate at this point, I'll use it to pay future fees** Every now and then I encounter websites that have donate buttons, especially if they provide a service. I've always wondered about this but figured "Hey, if people ... More About: Cyber
iPad Review: Taking Notes
2010-06-05 19:05:00 One of the biggest reasons to get an iPad, in my opinion anyways, is that a tablet seems like the perfect note taking platform. So I was rather surprised when I first turned it on and encountered Notes , the built in software. If Apple's goal was notepad, then sure... mission accomplished but I expected more ... More About: Reviews , Review
iPad Review: Source Code Editors
2010-05-22 10:12:00 In playing with my iPad, I determined that editing code in vi via SSH just wasn't going to be possible (the on screen keyboard just doesn't work well for vi keyboard commands). That meant I had to look at AppStore alternatives. I came across two that advertised what I wanted to do; for i ($9.99) ... More About: Review , Editors , Source , Code
My ?DoS? Attack
2010-05-20 08:12:00 I experienced a ?brief? period of downtime ( ~24 hours) the other day on a server that I have hosted with 1and1. When I contacted them to find out about the outage, I was informed that my IP has been blackholed due to a DoS attack. I was surprised to discover that they hadn?t contacted ...
Twitter gets EV SSL but is the message correct?
2010-05-18 07:32:00 This would normally go on SSLFail.com but due to a server outage, I decided to just post it here... Tim Callan, SSL Evangelist for Verisign, has posted a brief comment that Twitter now enjoys the added cost... um... protection... of EV SSL. I decided to check this out, so I visited https://www.twitter.com and was greeted by ... More About: Message
My Experiences Jailbreaking the iPad
2010-05-18 06:20:00 It's been a while since I posted here (I'll add another post with links to my recent postings) but maybe this one will irritate enough people to make up for it -- Last weekend involved more playing with my iPad and given that it?s my first Apple product since the original iPod mini, there are ... More About: Experiences
DVL Mirror Back Up
2009-10-28 15:45:00 I just got an email from my web host that I now have unlimited traffic, which means no worrying about overages and no worrying about extra fees. As a result... I've re-enabled the DVL mirror, DVL 1.5 is available here More About: Back , Mirror
My Open Tabs in Firefox
2009-10-13 09:21:00 When I started this site I did something called the daily link list. Back then I had time to gather links of interest articles every morning and share them with some comments. I don't have that kind of free time anymore... but I noticed I've got a number of open tabs and decided it was ... More About: Health , Apple , Firefox , Open , Tabs
Using Firebug to Beat Poor Web Development
2009-10-13 01:44:00 For my 500th blog post, I figured I'd share something amusing. From time to time, my wife and I order from Swiss Chalet and the order it pretty standard, quarter chicken and a baked potato. The one thing we've always found is that they don't provide enough sour cream with the baked potato but luckily, for ... More About: Web Development , Development , Beat
SecTOR!
2009-10-10 09:14:00 I guess it's time for that post SecTOR write-up. Time to share every little thing I can remember... which, luckily for you, isn't much. I'm going to divide this up in sections to make it easier to organize my thoughts (or for you to skip parts). Canadian Information Security Awards Kudos to the organizers for attempting this, ...
SecTor Tomorrow
2009-10-06 04:28:00 Tomorrow is SecTor and I'm rather excited. There are so many talks I want to take in that I, unfortunately, can't see them all. On top of that the speakers dinner and meet-up at the Loose Moose should be awesome. nCircle will have a booth this year and will be giving away T-Shirts and chocolate. So ... More About: Tomorrow
On Teaching?
2009-10-01 06:32:00 I remember one day in elementary school when we were dressing up for our future careers. I don't remember why they had us perform this ridiculous act, but I do remember it happening. I got up that morning, got ready for school, dressed up in nice clothes and picked up my "brief case", in reality ... More About: Teaching
What is Ethical?
2009-08-10 07:37:00 If one of my college professors stumbled across this post she'd probably have a heart attack, since she taught an entire course on ethics. Yet it seemed like the most appropriate title for this post. Over years the years, how many countless inventions have improved mankind, yet have introduced a negative side effect? The gun provides ...
Has SBN Stopped Being Useful?
2009-08-07 07:29:00 I think that the Security Bloggers Network (SBN) is amazing, so please don't misinterpret this post... I've provided the domain for the website and host a mailing list (although it was infrequently used even during the 2 months when people used it). Yet I have to wonder if it is perhaps becoming a little too ...
SSH Brute Force Attempts ? GeoLocation
2009-08-04 06:06:00 A couple of weeks ago, I posted regarding the logs of some SSH bruce force attempts I had logged on my server, and was looking through. One of the comments was asking for geolocation of the IP Addresses. Tonight I decided to make use of the service available at ip2location.com and geolocate each of the ... More About: Force
Screenshot == Reported to FBI?
2009-07-15 23:28:00 I have to say that I was completely shocked when I read this (via SpywareGuide)yesterday... the first thing I did was send it to everyone I was talking to on IM. Write to help protect people from phishing sites and have a complaint filed with the FBI? There's something seriously wrong with this picture. PayPal seems ... More About: Screenshot
Does (Spam|Phishing) Filtering == Email Censoring?
2009-07-14 15:32:00 I was reading about the Gmail Labs option to display a key icon if the sender's domain is signed using DKIM and the sender is eBay or PayPal. This allows you to quickly verify if the email is legitimate by looking at the icon. Now it apparently takes some work for a domain to be ... More About: Spam , Email , Phishing , Censoring
SSH Brute Force Attempts
2009-07-13 07:44:00 Quite a while ago I modified an instance of sshd to log the client version and password for every attempted login. I then set it listening on a seperate interface that I never log into. I finally got a chance to parse the logs (3 grep lines to dump data from the auth logs and ... More About: Force
How Important is an IP Address?
2009-07-05 07:41:00 There's an interesting post on VitalSecurity.org by paperghost. He's talking about a feature in Gmail that allows you to see all IP Address es logged into your Gmail account and even sign out all other users. He has two interesting thoughts in the article. That there's now a privacy concern if an attacker is in your ...
Welcome to the Blogging Scene: Forage Security Inc.
2009-07-05 05:45:00 I wanted to write a quick little post to let everyone know about a new blog that they should keep an eye on. The Forage Security Inc. blog contains posts from a former colleague.... someone I consider to be a good friend and one of the brightest guys I know. I expect that you'll see ... More About: Blogroll , Blogging , Scene
Who Will Use Microsoft Security Essentials?
2009-07-04 23:27:00 Randy Abrams (who's a great guy to share a beer with if you ever have the chance) of ESET briefly mentioned the impact that Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) will have on the AV market in a blog post a couple of weeks ago. A commenter mentioned that MSE meant that his father would now install AV. ...
Terminology Woes
2009-07-04 07:14:00 Tonight I started thinking that one of the biggest problems affecting IT today is the lack of a clearly defined terminology (both terms and acronyms). Sure certain things have had standardization (CPE comes to mind as a great example) but generally terms are not common across the board. Let's consider a few examples. VM - Do ... More About: Terminology
Gmail Lab?s Reply-to-All
2009-06-26 06:04:00 I don't know about everyone else, but I tend to send hit 'Reply to All' much more frequently than just Reply. So when the Gmail labs feature to make 'Reply to All' the default became available, I was rather excited. It isn't much (a simple click on a drop down) but it made life more ...
What is InfoSec?
2009-06-25 06:23:00 When you speak to individuals working in our industry, you'll get a variety of answers for what they do. This near endless list of titles includes: Software Engineer Software Developer Security Engineer Support Specialist Research Engineer Network Admin System Admin The list goes on and on. Historically, I've divided those within IT into one of four groups: Developer Information Security (IS) Professional Information Technology (IT) Professional Web ...
MySQLdb in Cygwin
2009-06-09 06:26:00 I use Windows XP on all of my 4 primary machines (work, work, laptop & home). The only reason I like Windows XP is because it holds PuTTY windows so nicely and allows me to Alt-Tab between them. No Linux distro or Window Manager has ever really had the Alt-Tab experience that Windows XP provides. The ... More About: Tutorials , Python
MySQLdb in Cygwin
More articles from this author:2009-06-09 06:26:00 I use Windows XP on all of my 4 primary machines (work, work, laptop & home). The only reason I like Windows XP is because it holds PuTTY windows so nicely and allows me to Alt-Tab between them. No Linux distro or Window Manager has ever really had the Alt-Tab experience that Windows XP provides. The ... More About: Tutorials , Python 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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