Crimeware
What is worse than reusing passwords?
Think your password resets are secure? Think again. The city you grew up in and your mother's maiden name can be derived from public records. Facebook might unwittingly tell the name of your best friend. And, until quite recently, Ford with its 25% market share had a pretty good chance of being the brand of your first car!
Unix as a Second Language
Setting up a proxy web server with Apache
Setting up a forward web proxy with Apache involves a very simple and quick procedure. From start to finish, it should take you roughly half an hour. Let's examine the process step by step.
Inside the Channel
And now, Symantec gets it all right
It’s refreshing to regale a vendor with kudos for customer service performed expertly. The beneficiary of my admiration today is Symantec.
Windows in the Enterprise
Finding technical info on Microsoft's web site
Some need-to-know pages on microsoft.com for IT pros who work with Microsoft products and technologies.
The Left Field
Programmers are people too
Whether the world likes it or not, programmers are people too. They eat, drink, sleep, dream and work just like everyone else. A programmer looking at the St. Louis Arch will almost certainly see something that is taller than it is wide – just like everyone else. Even when it is known that the arch is as wide as it is high, the eyes tell a different story. We cannot help the illusions we fall for.
Smart Tech for Small Biz
SaaS Stupidity from BusinessWeek
I discovered why SaaS (Software as a Service) remains a scary proposition to many small businesses: they listen to really, really bad advice. You know, scary stories full of lies, incompetent research, and self-serving bias masquerading as journalism. The most recent putrid prose comes from BusinessWeek.com in a column called “Beware the Hype for Software as a Service.”
VoIP Security: Secrets and Hype
VoIP security auditing is becoming more and more complex ... Not!
I am curious how people can conduct penetration tests of a complex VoIP system when they barely understand how VoIP infrastructure works. Today, security people are still stuck to auditing practices from 1990s. When asked to do a penetration test, a consultant often is only looking at past issues that can be detected using various vulnerability scanners. Very few of them know that vulnerability scanners have extremely bad coverage of vulnerabilities in VoIP solutions. And even if the tools did know VoIP, who really cares about past issues that might have been relevant several years ago.
ITwhirled
The ladies of video games (and their underwear)
Many female gamers complain that on the rare occasion that women do appear in games, they turn out to be sexbots in ludicrous underwear...
Ace your IT career
Finally -- An "Easy Button" for Professional Networking
For some IT professionals, “people” networking can be harder than getting their CCIE certification...
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Crimeware: Understanding New Attacks and Defenses
By Markus Jakobsson, Zulfikar Ramzan
Published Apr 6, 2008 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Part of the Symantec Press series.
Enter now! | Official rules | Sample chapter
Securing VoIP Networks: Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Countermeasures
By Peter Thermos, Ari Takanen
Published Aug 1, 2007 by Addison-Wesley Professional.
Enter now! | Official rules | Sample chapter
