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Bruce Schneier on Why Security Exists in Society
A video interview with Bruce Schneier explaining why we need security when people normally are civil and honest.
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finally… rsyslog agent for windows released
It's done! We have finally released the rsyslog Agent for Windows, a nice piece of software that enables easy integration of Windows Event Logs into a rsyslog backend system. Ideas for this tool...
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Public Service Announcement – Stress and Burnout in the InfoSec Community
A week ago, to kick off RSA, there was a Professional Development Track Session (PROF-001) on the topic of stress and burnout in the Information Security industry. One of the comments made at the track...
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Alert Logic Cloud Security Report Shows Cloud Security Is Different and the...
With all of the rush around RSA week last week, I didn’t get a chance to post on the “State of Cloud Security” report published by my friends at Alert Logic last week. I think this first installment of...
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What Will Internet Governance Look Like?
With the recent discussions around Internet governance within the US legislature and the UN, it is clear that the method of governing the Internet will soon be defined. Given the occurrences of cyber...
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Updated Automated SQL Injection Tools
In our Anonymous report, we provided some detail about Havij, a SQL injection tool that is used by good and--mostly--bad guys to exploit SQL injection vulnerabilities. But Havij isn't the only game in...
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Security B-Sides: Connecting the Infosec Community…Locally
Want to connect with your fellow infosec peeps? Then you need to either attend or start a Security B-Sides event in your area.
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Bringing Sexy back (to Security): Mike’s RSAC 2012 Wrap-up
Oh yeah. I’m back in the ATL after a week at the RSA Conference. Aside from severe sleep deprivation, major liver damage, and some con flu… I’m feeling great. It seems everyone else is as well....
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Security professionals DO use anti-virus
It was back in the 1990s when someone told me that operating systems like Windows NT were getting so safe that AV would soon be out of business. And I hear on a regular basis that AV is so ineffective...
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7 Great Gmail Addons for Fun and Profit #HPIO Gmail — either the free...
7 Great Gmail Addons for Fun and Profit #HPIO Gmail -- either the free consumer version, or the one that's part of Google Apps -- is probably the best web-based email system out there. Sure, Hotmail is...
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SBN Sponsor Post
RSA Conference US 2012 keynote lineup announced. Tony Blair to give closing keynote address.http://bit.ly/wrm3Aw
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NSA CryptoChallenge … Would You Like to Play a Game?
When is a game not just a game? Well, when it’s the new recruiting iPhone app released by NSA. The application, “NSA CryptoChallenge,” is targeted at college students and young adults and takes them...
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Let the naysaying from the climate-change denial gallery begin!
Let the naysaying from the climate-change denial gallery begin!
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If We Can’t Stop Data Breaches, What Can We Do?
Explanations of why we can never get rid of data breaches and some possible solutions on how to prevent many from happening.
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Microsoft: Cloud will create 14 million new jobs by 2015
On Monday, Microsoft released the results of an IDC study they commissioned, which predicts 14 million new jobs across the globe by 2015, with more than a million of them here stateside.
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Domain Name System welcomes #313
With the addition of the IDN string қаз (Kazakhstan), the number of IDN and country code Top Level Domains has reached 280. The total number of TLDs, including Latin and non-Latin (IDN) country codes,...
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-03-05
About to go on stage to chair day 2 of the CISO Middle East conference in AbuDhabi – wish me luck # I cant believe that the nasa space pen / russian pencil story *still* gets trotted out at confs as...
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Adobe Patches Critical Flash Flaws
For the second time in less than a month, Adobe has issued an update to fix dangerous flaws in its Flash Player software. The patch addresses two vulnerabilities rated “critical,” but Adobe says it is...
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Vroom, Vroom, fast cars, fast woman and security?
Now that RSA is over it is time for my annual rant on how we sell security. As my friend Mike Rothman wrote, this years RSA was full of optimism, race cars and booth babes. The optimism was a...
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Tech Talk – CompTIA’s Cloud Essentials
I sit with Rick Bauer, Director of Research at CompTIA, and discuss the new CompTIA Cloud Essentials Credential.
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