This past week, Google and Verizon introduced a joint legislative proposal. Shortly thereafter, blogs and forums filled with buzz and chatter over this two-page document. Many of those blogs and posts were targeted at Google, claiming that they are proposing things in violation of net neutrality. What exactly is net neutrality, and why is Google [...]

Today I was working on a Flex application which uses a lot of Remoting calls to a bunch of ColdFusion CFC methods. I wondered what the most efficient way of securing these methods would be since they are effectively wide open to the world as they all (have to) specify access=”remote”. This means that anyone [...]

When recommending penetration testing for a corporate network the first question is usually, ”Why would we need penetration testing?” The first answer is, if you don’t they will. Everyday malicious and sometimes just overly curious people use their computers to run automated testing scripts that look for system vulnerabilities to record and potentially later exploit. Sometimes the [...]

The current economic climate is in an odd place right now. Early in 2009, we were in a state of shock and for some, despair. The words ‘recession’ and ‘fallout’ were commonplace, and as the year wore on things didn’t look to get better. The more I read of predictions in 2010, the more optimistic [...]

Red Ventures is an internet marketing business which is responsible for multi-channel and massive acquisition programs. They represent many of the leading businesses in the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico . They’ve now decided to partner with Verizon Business to assist in their advanced communications and IT services. Red Ventures is banking on the partnership [...]

Oracle updated its frequently asked questions (FAQ) overview of the impending Sun acquisition to address some important questions about the fate of Sun’s software assets beyond Java and Solaris. To be completely honest, none of Oracle’s plans come as a surprise.  And at the end of the day, the FAQ is not legally binding and [...]

I have found that with cloud computing there seems to be a ton of “expert” advice but it is not coming from people who are actually building solutions in the cloud.  Many giving “expert” advice are seasoned veterans and talented people, but they are simply stating opinions not backed by any facts.  Most have simply [...]

Slashdot reports that Harald Welte is operating an open source GSM network at the Hacking at Random (HAR) conference.  Welte writes:

Since last week we saw the publishing of confidential documents from inside Twitter (I doubt any of you missed that, but if you did, TechCrunch last week got passed documents from a hacker who figured out how to get into several accounts at Twitter).

An update to the WordPress platform, version 2.8.2, was issued earlier today that addresses a security issue known as XSS or  cross-site scripting.