I had the fantastic opportunity to have a recorded video chat (a vidcast) with Mike Morris the Global Director of Business Development at Endace recently. Endace is in my mind the market leader when it comes to network packet capture solutions. They have really evolved network packet technology from its roots in open source TCPdump […]
Amazingly Great Read: Gates and Ladders
Before I was a programmer. Before I was a network expert. Before I was an educator. I was a car guy. Due to all these other things in my life I never got as deep into auto mechanics as others. Reading about and working on my cars has always been a great distraction from Internet […]
Examining PayPal Phishing Email Headers
Looking at the phishing email I received the other day telling me that my PayPal account had been suspended the next step in my investigation is to determine how it reached my inbox. There are many good resources available that describe manual email header analysis. To start out take a look at this article at […]
Summer Reading 101 – The Blue Team Field Manual
I read all the time. I admit that I read less now that I found and use Audible the Amazon audio book service). While Audible is great the books I chose to read (or re-read) this summer are probably not available there. I recently re-read the Blue Team Field Manual (BTFM) and read the Red […]
Using Biometrics to Replace Passwords
I was recently asked this question… I’m working on a project right now where my team wants to substitute passwords and usernames for biometric authentication. I have expressed my multiple concerns for the security of such a system, but the idea has now come up that we could use a system with at least 2 […]