Funny ‘Hacker’ Story.
A funny story about a hacker named “bitchchecker”, proving his mad skills by attacking someone on the Internet.
Using the IP: 127.0.0.1
Watch out for this guy.
VRT: APT: Should your panties be in a bunch, and how do you un-bunch them?.
I don’t know how to say it anymore than this:
Matt Olney wrote a damn, a DAMN good post about APT on the VRT blog, and if you read my blog, and you don’t go over to the VRT blog and [...]
10 reasons to avoid talking on the phone – The Oatmeal.
This is an awesome comic, pretty much sums up talking on the phone correctly.
Click through, it’s awesome.
Sourcefire VRT Labs.
For those of you that are using Sourcefire VRT rules to protect your network with your Snort IDS/IPS installation, (as you should!). There are mappings from MS vulnerability number to SID number, in the past, you either had to be a Sourcefire customer (we make this super easy in the Policy Editor GUI) [...]
Let me start off by saying I’m not bashing the writer of this article, and I’m trying not to be super critical. I don’t want to discourage this person from writing articles about Snort rules. It’s great when people in the Snort community step up and explain some simple things out there. There are mistakes, [...]
Tuning Snort with Host Attribute Tables – CSO Online – Security and Risk.
Here is an article I wrote for CSO magazine, thought the readers of my blog might like to check it out as well.
I was asked to write a fairly technical article for CSO magazine about Snort, the problem is, which part of Snort [...]
I took away the WP Greet Box for awhile based on the fact that I didn’t really have it configured optimally. I wanted the Greet Box (which is a little pop up widget that say “Hello, welcome to the site, you can subscribe here” — pretty much) because on several of the themes I have [...]
In a big move by Google I just received an email letting me know that Google will be phasing out support for IE6 in Google Apps in 2010.
“In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This [...]
I’ve been reading a lot of hubbub about the new Apple iPad not having the capability of displaying Flash. Of course! It stands to reason that it can’t, it has the same OS as the iPhone, which, also can’t display Flash. Which leads me to think, why do we need flash?
Answer is, we don’t. Not [...]
I know plenty of you that read my blog are interested in Snort Rules, and are always open to the management of Snort rules in an easier fashion. Often, in the past our (our being the ‘Snort Professionals’) recommendation has been “Oinkmaster”. Perl program, pretty stable, kept rules up to date and such. Well, Oinkmaster [...]