See IPS and IDS.
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- Say it ain't so AVG, say it ain't so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware?
- The Register covered a very interesting story about AVG. Apparently AVG is spamming the Internet with traffic that looks to be coming from Internet Explorer. AVG software pre-crawls search results to try to protect users, but uses a user agent that makes the software appear to be Internet Explorer. This pre-crawling is flooding websites with...
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- PCI-DSS 1.1 points to outdated OWASP Top 10
- OK, I'm not going to freak out about this too bad... I've already pointed out enough problems with PCI, but I did find it morbidly entertaining. My good friend Jeremiah Grossman pictured at right blogged today about the PCI-DSS 1.1 section 6.5, which covers "prevention of common coding vulnerabilities in...
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- What putting off health care means
- What putting off health care meansPreventionI used to get severe headaches occasionally migraine whenever the weather changed. If a thunderstorm was coming, I would get a bad headache. When the weather was turning nice again, I would get a severe headache. I had a couple of dental...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- Live Webcast: Using High Availability, Replication and Virtualization for Business Continuity
- Organizations face a number of challenges to business continuity and application availability, such as volumes of data and application complexity, demands for round-the-clock operations, and server proliferation. Data replication and high availability can meet many of these challenges, but must be properly used and meet certain standards, if they are...
- Webcasts 2008-06-26
- Data Loss Prevention from the Inside Out
- Firewalls and intrusion prevention systems can protect your network from outside threats, but they will not stop one of your biggest security risks: well-meaning employees who accidentally expose or release sensitive data to the outside world. This live 60-minute Cisco TechWiseTV video broadcast on Thursday, June 26, 2008, at 10...
- Webcasts 2008-06-26
- The view from the trenches...
- Taking a pragmatic approach on collaboration 2.0 strategy and tactics, here's an example of some realities from a client side perspective. This post is about what it's like inside a large enterprise running a collaboration system. I've been on both sides of the fence during my career:...
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- ServerMask (exe)
- ServerMask for IIS modifies your Web server's "fingerprint" by removing unnecessary HTTP response data, modifying cookie values, removing the need to serve file extensions, and adjusting other response information to obscure the identity of your server. Successful anti-reconnaissance confuses hackers and makes it likely they will try the wrong exploits...
- Software downloads 2008-06-24
- 90% of all statistics can be made to say anything... 50% of the time, aka my thoughts on the Verizon report
- ** Update 06/23/2008: I realize I didn't do a very good job of talking about what we're reviewing here. This is in response to the statistics gathered by Verizon related to Forensic Analysis of Data Breaches over a four year span. First off, let me...
- Blog posts 2008-06-22
- Free Sourcefire tool pinpoints hostile MS Office files
- Sourcefire, the company behind the popular Snort intrusion detection system, has released a freeware utility to help identify potentially threatening Microsoft Office files. The tool, called OfficeCat, can be used to process Microsoft Office documents -- Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Publisher -- determine if possible exploit conditions...
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Wiretapping: This was no time for a compromise
- Wiretapping: This was no time for a compromiseThis was not a compromise...it was a SELL-OUT.RE: Wiretapping: This was no time for a compromiseHardly a compromise. And hardly adequate. You admit it yourself -- seven years with no attack, and just because the White House didn't invite you personally to...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- Wiretapping: This was no time for a compromise
- Democrats in Congress have arrived at a compromise on legislation that will allow warrantless wiretaps on U.S. citizens' telephone lines. In March, I covered the threats to privacy from this bill, which was pushed hard by the White House as essential to national security. Today, the Democrats caved in big...
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Security breach hits DivShare, unauthorized access to its database
- The popular document and media sharing service DivShare, suffered a security breach according to a security announcement posted by DivShare's support team earlier this week : Late last night we were alerted of a security breach that allowed a malicious user to access our database, which included user e-mail...
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Should more doctors go to jail?
- Should more doctors go to jail?It's really sad when famous people die NTNTActually...More attention should be given to the Pharmacuitical companies wasting billions and billions of our money on TV commercials instead of using the money to educate and present the drugs to doctors for consideration, and further research.I don't...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- OK bill would create email registry for sex offenders
- OK bill would create email registry for sex offendersOK bill would create email registry for sex offendersLawmakers continue to exacerbate the problem with "feel good," "ineffective" legislation. 60 million people have been molested in this country and 30 million will go on to repeat a molestation. Incest and friends of...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
- Stratus Avance a new take on clustering
- After many attempts at scheduling a meeting, I was finally able to speak with Stratus about their new virtual machine/clustering/HA software offering called Avance. It's Stratus' entry into the pure software market. Here's how Stratus describes Avance Stratus Technologies can provide some relief. With the introduction...
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- Study: MP3 generation still a bunch of pirates
- Study: MP3 generation still a bunch of piratesAnd if the study was done before MP3'sYou would have probably gotten similar stats for copies of cassettes. Where the record industry messed up at was not selling MP3 music online sooner.Music industry cartel propaganda.How many people were surveyed? 3? 100? A million?...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-16
- Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 - Benefits of Upgrading
- This webcast will present the benefits of upgrading to Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0. Symantec Endpoint Protection threat prevention technologies present users with the optimum balance between security needs, administrative overhead and system impact. The webcast will focus on the advantages of the Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 management architecture, the required...
- Webcasts 2008-06-13
- Hacking SCADA for terrorism and destruction
- SCADA scares me, and I've seen enough things on the Internet to be desensitized to many things, but attacks against SCADA threaten our national security in a very real and topical way by attacking power grids, water treatment plants, nuclear plants, etc. Hacking networks that SCADA devices reside on and...
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Health care debate not really about costs
- Some national health debates are about costs. The debate now beginning in Australia, a plan to push more primary care to nurses and others, is about costs. The U.S. debate is not about costs. It's about who bears those costs. It's about what we...
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Data Loss Prevention - Strategies you can use to protect your company today
- Data loss prevention DLP is a serious issue for companies, as the number of incidents and the cost to those experiencing them continues to increase. Whether it's a malicious attempt or an inadvertent mistake, data loss can diminish a company's brand, reduce shareholder value, and damage the company's goodwill and...
- Webcasts 2008-06-10
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