d.strom, cissp, gsec, gsna on July 27th, 2010

Last night the Kansas City Royals lost a baseball game to the Minnesota Twins by a score of 19 to 1. That tied the worst loss in the teams history. Wow! I grew up listening to the Royals on the radio almost every night. Those were the days when the Royals were almost always in [...]

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d.strom, cissp, gsec, gsna on July 22nd, 2010

Most folks will not understand (or even care about) the details of the recently reported DNS rebind vulnerability. But this problem affects many of the low-end cable and DSL routers that are used in homes and small businesses. Even more alarming is that a tool to exploit this vulnerability is to be released at Black [...]

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d.strom, cissp, gsec, gsna on March 24th, 2010

When looking for a low-cost and lightweight anti-virus solution for my home computers, I came across VIPRE from Sunbelt Software. It can be found here. I have been using it for a few months and been very pleased. I have used the Big Names in the past – Norton/Symantec, McAfee, Webroot – and they have [...]

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d.strom, cissp, gsec, gsna on September 10th, 2009

Take a look at this article from Network World. It provides high-level descriptions of how you can get infected with malware even though you avoid shady or inappropriate websites. 7 Reasons Websites Are No Longer Safe – Network World And so that you don’t have to read the long version, here is the short version… [...]

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d.strom, cissp, gsec, gsna on August 6th, 2009

By now we’ve all heard that Twitter was offline for a couple of hours today, and that FaceBook was running slowly. The reports are that they both were victims of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. While this was limited to sites that, admittedly, have little measurable business value, what if it was a [...]

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