This is really cool. The guys that brought you the JanusVM Internet Privacy Appliance are about to release instructions on how to make a hardware privacy adapter. What is a hardware privacy adapter you ask? Via Hack a day: “It’s a small two port router. You just plug it in-line between your computer’s switch and […]
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It’s always interesting to me when I check out a new Twitter application, it always seems to ask you to “verify” your account or ask you to pass your Twitter user name/password to their application. This of course is done without any protections or any way of knowing what happens to your account information on
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Looks like the Notacon website has updated the speaker list and there looks to be some really good talks so far. Here is the list from the Notacon 6 website and blog post: Time To Replicate The Real Threat: Client Side Penetration Testing CG & g0ne Interactivity with Arduinos, Transducing the Physical World droops &
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Looks like the fine folks over at Paterva have released version 2.01 of Maltego. If you don’t know what Maltego is…look here. Check out some of the changes and new features. From the announcement: Features: * Copy and paste to/from graphs * Copy and paste to/from text * Above can also function as “import” *
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There is a new group forming in Northeast Ohio for IT professionals focused on the younger generation and is an opportunity to network and learn from one another. The first meeting is at the Great Lakes Brewing Company on December 10th @ 6pm (downstairs in the beer cellar). Cost is $15 to help with appetizers
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You may have noticed that I removed the SBN (Security Bloggers Network) badge from my blog and that the SBN Feedburner site has not been updated in several weeks. Well, Alan Shimel has officially moved SBN over to Lijit. Lijit is kind of like FriendFeed but is really more about searching, linking searches, and putting
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I just posted an article for Blogsecurify about a new Facebook phish that I stumbled upon. Thanks again to Greg and Tyler for helping out with some of the detailed analysis! You guys rock!
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Hey…I actually found a few minutes for a quick blog post! 🙂 Just a quick post to check out the report that my friend and malware researcher Greg Feezel was mentioned in a report over at Hostexploit.com. He contributed data to this report. The report was on the McColo web hosting firm which is apparently
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Today at the Ohio Information Security Summit I released my Facebook Security & Privacy Guide. This guide gives you suggested “baseline” security settings that you can use when configuring your Facebook account. Obviously, you can adjust these settings based on your own level of risk but it should give you a good starting point. How
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I won’t go into detail about the new Microsoft vulnerability…you all know it’s pretty serious and there are a ton of blogs and websites talking about the dirty details. Hopefully you have all read about it and are getting the word out about patching. However, there are some updates on the status of currently available
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