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- Just have to get the web site back up. 2010/07/27
- If anyone tried to email me this weekend, my DNS provider had an unexpected outage. All should be well now though. 2010/07/27
- Ever run portmaster and portupgrade simultaneously in some kind of Machiavellian race? Seriously, don't do it. Portupgrade won btw. 2010/07/24
- Ironically while it showed more bars right here I had to retry posting that tweet, as per usual in that low signal area. 2010/07/17
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Category Archives: Security
Two Factor Auth & The Yubikey
I have now upgraded the blog to use two factor authentication for logins to the WordPress back end. Meaning, to login you have to present something you know (username/password – ho hum) and either something you have (keyfiles / SSL … Continue reading
Even Russian Spies Need A Helpdesk
If you’ve been following the news recently, by now you’ve heard about the Russian spy ring infiltrated and formally charged by the US. The operatives spying on us make a lot of critical mistakes. Back during the cold war, spies … Continue reading
The New Insider Threat
It’s not a new threat really. People inside an organization can always be a threat. It’s just that many people, some of them prominent security professionals, have been downplaying the insider threat lately in order to hype other emerging threats. … Continue reading
Rubber Hose Cryptanalysis
via xkcd
Nmap Network Scanning Review
Title: The long winded title for this book is Nmap Network Scanning: The Official Nmap Project Guide to Network Discovery and Security Scanning, but I’ll just be calling it NNS. Author: Gordon “Fyodor” Lyon Rating: ***** Bottom Line: The definitive … Continue reading
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Interesting SANS posts
Some interesting posts on the SANS Internet Storm Center blog. I’m sure these have already been posted everywhere (I saw one on delicious earlier), but it’s always good to have these kinda things to refer back to later. The first … Continue reading