Over the past couple days I’ve been reporting over on the Internet Storm Center about the number of domains that have been registered (either legitimately for good use, or for malicious use) concerning the Haitian Earthquake disaster. Read the original article here.
Like I said in that article, we’re assuming that these domains are being registered [...]
Today, I posted an article on the Internet Storm Center about the fact that sometimes domains are parked and used for malicious use when a disaster occurs.
Domains like haitiearthquake2010 and haitiearthquakerelief and various names like that.
Well, because this is of such a large concern, I was contacted by no less than 5 news [...]
I posted this on the ISC this morning as well, but I just wanted to post it here as well.
A “bug” created back in November against the latest Fedora release (12) indicates that, through the GUI, desktop users of the Fedora system are able to install signed packages without root privileges or root authentication. Yes, [...]
As I posted on the Internet Storm Center this morning:
Thanks to a reader (Thanks Bob), who wrote in this morning asking if we have seen an increase in spam lately, I can personally confirm that yes, I have seen more spam in my inbox lately.
Bob sent us a couple interesting graphics, the first being a [...]
Hey everyone, sorry it has taken so long to get around to recording another podcast episode. Travel schedules have been very crazy between us lately. Anyway, enough excuses, here is episode eleven. Thanks for all the emails asking me where it is! :) It helps to remind me….
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Okay, so after much crazyness concerning the Live Podcast from SANSFIRE of Episode 9, its finally posted.
So to give you a quick run down on what took us so long to get this thing posted, all of the mics that we were being used was going into a Soundboard, and the Soundboard audio was going [...]
There is a webinar with Dan Kaminsky today to talk about the DNS issue.
Link is here. Go and register and listen to all the news about the DNS vuln/exploit.
List of people on the panel:
* Dan Kaminsky, Director of Penetration Testing, IOactive * Jerry Dixon, Former Director of the National Cyber Security [...]
The podcast last night (and my speech) went great, we had a great attendance (about 50-70 ish) turn out.
Unfortunately we were not able to broadcast it live since we had no internet, but we did get video and audio recordings of the whole thing. We’ll try and make those available soon!
Thanks for all those that [...]