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06 Feb 2012My new material on Web application & website security
Here are several new pieces I've written on Web site/application security. Lots of angles and considerations:There’s more to web security than meets the eyeWeb passwords are often the weakest linkTo validate or not, is that the question?Protecting FTP services running on your Web serverThe critical Web-based systems that are going untested and unsecuredGood Web Security Tools and Why They MatterWhy you need intruder lockoutWeb security is like the layers of ...
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20 Jan 2012
The role of IT in fighting today’s malware
It seems ever since I wrote my paper The Malware Threat Businesses are Ignoring and How Damballa Failsafe Fits In I’m seeing more and more vendors jump on the bandwagon. Today’s malware impacts everything from the network infrastructure to the endpoint and everyone wants a piece of the pie. I know the market is growing so I can’t blame people for wanting to capitalize on the opportunity.Vendors aside, what is ...
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19 Jan 2012
Quoted in today’s SC Magazine feature story on Symantec
Stephen Lawton wrote today's SC Magazine feature news story on the Symantec source code breach in which I'm quoted.I provided these quotes late last night and it was interesting timing because I was speaking at local university's AITP chapter yesterday evening and I told my audience that no one is immune from hacking - not even IT and security pros...and obviously not information security companies.It's a crazy world out there. ...
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02 Jan 2012
Let’s make 2012 the year we get past “compliance” as we’ve known it
I hope your 2012 has gotten off to a grand start! Mine has. I believe this year is going to further demonstrate why we're working in one of the best possible fields in the world.To get things rolling this year, I wanted to share with you a few new pieces I've written for TechTarget's SearchCompliance.com regarding...well, compliance. It's one of those topics that tends to infuriate me when it comes ...
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09 Dec 2011
Reactive security at its finest
I've been hearing on the news about Georgia State University (@GeorgiaStateU) installing 50 new security cameras. No doubt, universities in downtown Atlanta (one of the highest-crime cities in the nation) are not fairing so well with security these days so somebody needs to do something, no?Well, Georgia State's solutions was to install more security cameras. Is this security theater at it's finest? Not totally, but it is security theater like ...
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07 Dec 2011
Join me live online today with TechTarget & ISACA
Today is our live virtual seminar Making the Case for the Cloud: The Next Steps. Join me, Urs Fischer, Dave Shackleford, Andrew Baer and Diana Kelley to hear about various aspects of cloud computing you may not have thought about.Starting at 11:15am ET, I'll be presenting on Incident Response in Cloud Computing. I'll talk about common incident response weaknesses I see in my work, questions you must ask your cloud ...
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05 Dec 2011
What happens when third-party patches are ignored
The majority of people I speak with claim they have no means for patching third-party software. As Kelly Jackson Higgins mentions in her recent Dark Reading blog post regarding the rash of Java exploitations, when third-party software goes unmanaged, bad things can happen.It's great that Metasploit has a a module for Java exploitation - something that'll not only benefit me in my security assessments but will also help bring to ...
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17 Jun 2011
Hacking tools & malware creation illegal – what’s next?
With all the criminal behavior taking place on computers around the world, it appears that politicians are seeking some solutions. For instance, European Union Justice Ministers are proposing a ban on hacking tools. I suspect this law will work just as well as gun laws in the U.S. Simply criminalize the inanimate object (or code) and only the law-abiding citizens will comply. It creates the perfect storm for criminals to ...
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13 Jun 2011
New WebsiteDefender from @Acunetix worth a look-see
The folks at Acunetix have a neat new product/service called WebsiteDefender. I've yet to try it myself but it looks promising - fills a nice niche.WebsiteDefender is an agent-based tool for websites and WordPress-based blogs that:Scans your site for security flawsDetects malware running on your siteAlerts you to suspicious web site activity including file changesThe obvious benefit is to have a more secure online presence but as Acunetix is marketing ...
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08 Jun 2011
Weiner fallout: “I got hacked” is the new scapegoat
I recently met up with some technology lawyer colleagues after work and we shared our thoughts on the Anthony Weiner "incident". We were talking about how early on in the saga no one but Weiner and the lucky recipients of his tweets really knew what the truth was. Predictably, as we're seeing and hearing more and more these days, Weiner came out and said "I was hacked. It happens to ...
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