Cyberwar – Halted ’03 Iraq Plan Illustrates U.S. Fear of Cyberwar Risk – Series – NYTimes.com This came across Twitter this morning. If you have any interest in cyberwarfare and the implications, you should read this. According to the article, this was scrapped, but yet many aspects are still classified. The plan was to use [...]
Security vendor McAfee spills 1,400 customer names – Network World “Dripping with irony” is how Network World magazine describes this situation. The lesson for the small business is that regardless of how advanced, or secure, your organization is, there needs to be constant vigilance. You don’t want to be the next company that has a [...]
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Reports are coming out this morning of distributed denial of service attacks coming from North Korea and targeting South Korean government and business web sites. I heard one report which stated that US government sites are also being targeted. I’ve never really thought USA Today was a bastion of InfoSec news, but they have a [...]
If you are interested in a real-world botnet analysis, take a look at the work being done with Torpig at UC Santa Barbara. Taking over the Torpig botnet This botnet is used for the normal activities of harvesting sensitive information from computers that are controlled. Using Domain Flux, the botnet generates lists of servers for [...]
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If someone is looking for information about you, what’s the first thing they will do? Yep, they will fire up Google and do a search. It is good practice to periodically search for yourself on Google. Be sure to include any variations on your name. Here’s what I would use… “Dan Strom” “Daniel Strom” “Daniel [...]
