Decrease In Network Security Attacks
The Aberdeen Group just told me that they released a free report on a decrease in network threats. The highlights are: Best-in-Class companies reported a year over year decrease of 8.6% in network security attacks.
Date: 2008-09-29
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Date: 2008-09-24
Hackers Attack The LHC
The shiny new Large Hadron Collider has been hacked, with hackers taking over the Compact Muon Solenoid detector. The hacker group 2600 of the Greek Security Team has claimed responsibility.
Date: 2008-09-15
U.S. Falling Behind In Internet Traffic
Last week, U.S. cable provider and ISP Comcast put a cap on monthly broadband use, and now there are reports surfacing that the U.S. in general is falling behind when it comes to Internet traffic. This is not a direct result of the Comcast situation, but with Comcast being the 2nd largest ISP in the country, it's certainly not going to help.
Date: 2008-09-02
Update Your System To Prevent DNS Exploits
HD Moore has released an exploit module for the Metasploit framework, meaning script kiddies and every other security person and wanna be is going to be downloading, if they have not already, and are playing around with DNS on the internet today.
Date: 2008-08-25
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Date: 2008-08-20
FCC Declares Comcast's Filtering Illegal
It's official, as far as the FCC is concerned, that Comcast's throttling of peer-to-peer traffic was illegal and in violation of the FCC's network neutrality principles. The highly expected ruling came down a few days ago, with Chairman Kevin Martin crossing the political aisle to join commissioners Copps and Adelstein, serving Comcast with a cease-and-desist order.
Date: 2008-08-11
EFF Launches Net Neutrality Tool
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has introduced a new tool that allows users to find out if their ISPs are throttling their P2P files. The new "Switzerland Tool" will reveal if a user's network connection has any restrictions on it from ISPs.
Date: 2008-08-04
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Date: 2008-07-23
SQL Server Upgrade Database Mirroring Issues
Before upgrading our production servers I simply removed the mirroring with the wizard. After the upgrade process the last step was to recreate the mirroring. If you have done this you know that you need to do a full backup with transaction log backup of the db and restore it.
Date: 2008-07-21
Reactions To European Telecommunications Packet Regulations
Today the European Parliament is going to vote on proposed amendments to the telecommunications packet regulation, below an excerpt of FFII press release and Kathy Sinnott reactions.
Date: 2008-07-07
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Date: 2008-06-25
RIAA Demands ISP's To Spy On Their Users
ISP's are beginning to bow to RIAA demands and spying on their users. This is odd if you consider them a communications company... like the telephone companies are. For example, do you talk on the cell phone each day? How about a LAN line? What if...AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile (I've probably hit about 80% of you) monitored your phone conversations?
Date: 2008-06-16
The Planet Datacenter Offline After Fire
A transformer fire knocked a Houston datacenter offline, taking down thousands of customers with it.
Date: 2008-06-02
Network Access Control Is Achievable
Network Access Control (NAC) promises to allow only authorized and compliant devices to access and operate on a network. If implemented properly, NAC can improve the security profile of a network and lower the overall security risks faced by an enterprise.
Date: 2008-05-14
Information Security Programs
If you ever have the chance, it is well worth your time to go through the information provided about the Masters of Information security programs at various colleges. If you take a very good look at them, and work on trying to figure out what they are actually trying to teach, you might just walk away either disappointed that there are not more real world information, or that these programs are doing the right thing.
Date: 2008-04-14
ISPs Tracking Everything You're Doing Online
A controversial company in Britain is out to see everything you're doing online. And they are going straight to the source to find out - your ISP. They are about to partner with Britian's top ISPs (BT, Virgin and Talk Talk) to track every single action you take and use it to show you ads.
Date: 2008-03-31
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Date: 2008-03-19
Microsoft Will Prevail Over Open Source Software
An aspect of the open source software nirvana has been the end of Microsoft's dominance. Well, anyone who sees Linux, OpenOffice or another OSS project/product as the death nail in Microsoft's coffin is not living in reality. It pains me to say this; it really does.
Date: 2008-03-03
Net Stalker's N-Stealth
If you need yet another tool in your tool box, and you want a good web site application level scanner, then you might want to check out N-Stealth from Net Stalker. Nstealth is a small footprint scanner that in the free edition can find a lot of interesting things about your web site, from cross site scripting issues, through foot printing and fingerprinting of your system.
Date: 2008-02-11
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Date: 2008-01-30
A Recent Security Horror Story
This will teach folks to put out help wanted ads, seems a receptionist in Florida read a help wanted ad that her employer put on, and thought that she was going to be replaced. Rather than asking, and thinking that her job was threatened, she decided to delete files, to the tune of 2.5 million dollars.
Date: 2008-01-25
The Un-Server: Using A MacBook
I started following through with some of my 2008 resolutions. First thing was to finally take the time to program our thermostat. I set it to 59 degrees at 10:00 PM, then to turn up to 64 at 7:00 AM, down to 62 again at 10:00, up to 64 at 5:00.
Date: 2008-01-07
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