From attacking our cyber information infrastructure, People's Liberation Army writings in recent years have called for the use of all means necessary, including -or particularly- information warfare, to support or advance their nation's interests.[`DoD's [...]
Posted by Marcin on Monday, September 25, 2006 in
Defense and
Intelligence.
Alright, so the US Navy is marking this week as the end of line for the F-14 Tomcat. The Tomcat has been showing its age, becoming more expensive to maintain, and slowly being replaced by F/A-18 Super Hornets. As sad as it is to finally see the Tomcat [...]
Posted by Marcin on Saturday, September 23, 2006 in
Defense and
News.
I've been following a discussion regarding backdooring PDF files on the full-disclosure mailing list originally posted by David Kierznowski and on eWeek. At his site, he discusses two techniques for exploiting Adobe Acrobat Reader and Professional. [...]
Posted by Marcin on Saturday, September 16, 2006 in
Security.
It's been a couple days since I attended day two of the IAM training, but I've been a little busy taking that information and preparing for our class' assessment of the school. On day two, we went over modules 3 and 4 (available at the IATRP website, for [...]
Posted by Marcin on Friday, September 15, 2006 in
School and
Security.
The IAM training has been going pretty well, even though it was just the first day. Today, the class went over the intital contact and pre-assessment phases. We defined the mission of our example organization (our customer) and identified points of [...]
Posted by Marcin on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 in
School and
Security.
Woohoo! This free PDF reader finally reached version 2. Best thing about Foxit Reader is that it's fast, self-executable, and takes up a small memory footprint. Grab it here, thank me later.
Posted by Marcin on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 in
Tech.
This Tuesday and Wednesday I'll be attending a training session (held at my school) on the NSA's Infosec Assessment Methodology taught by Russ Rogers and Greg Miles of Security Horizon. The IAM is a vunerability assessment of an organization's security [...]
Posted by Marcin on Sunday, September 10, 2006 in
School and
Security.
CAIRNS, Australia - Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed Monday by a stingray while filming off the Great Barrier Reef. [`news.com.au [...]
Posted by Marcin on Monday, September 4, 2006 in
News.
The Firefox development team released Firefox 2 Beta 2 today. I have a couple visual gripes in version 2, like the inability to easily remove red "X" on tabs through an options menu item, and the addition of a green "go" arrow to the right of the address [...]
Posted by Marcin on Friday, September 1, 2006 in
Tech.
