Five years ago I made a decision to move from PasswordSafe to AgileBits 1Password. As someone in the security field I’ve always tried to practice what I preach and using different passwords for different sites and cycling passwords (changing passwords every N months) is important. I looked at a number of different password management solutions. […]
Exploit of Trust Hack in a K-12 School
I was contacted the other day and asked to assess the threat posed by the email below. The message was sent to much of the professional staff of a local school district. The subject line read “URGENT. MUST READ.”. The email was from an email account at a North Carolina, US University. The contents of […]
Duqu: Son of Stuxnet
http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/18/8384786-son-of-stuxnet-virus-co…
Best Practices for Fighting Botnets
From Engadget: “… the Department of Homeland Security and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published a request for information, inviting companies from internet and IT companies to contribute their ideas to a voluntary “code…
IP addressing- A Great Read
http://www.cisco.com/web/about/security/intelligence/security-for-ip-addr.html