I have been getting just as furious as paperghost lately over the whole Julie Amero case. By now you’ve all heard about it, a substitute teacher was surfing the internet and then bombarded with porn advertisements she couldn’t get away. People debate her initial reactors and the woulda/coulda/shoulda’s. I think she just paniced and didn’t […]

Spam sucks. Why do spammers have to ruin every communication medium out there? Postal mail, email, popups, malware/spyware, and now comment spam. LonerVamp over at terminal23 has noticed an increase in spam on his blog as well. I had used Akismet to help combat spam, but my host is currently not allowing outbound requests on […]

It’s out, Issue 1.10.

Microsoft Windows Vista: significant security improvement?
Review: GFI Endpoint Security 3
Interview with Edward Gibson, Chief Security Advisor at Microsoft UK
Top 10 spyware of 2006
The spam problem and open source filtering solutions
Office 2007: new format and new protection/security policy
Wardriving in Paris
Interview with Joanna Rutkowska, security researcher
Climbing the security career mountain: how to get more […]

I’ve been reading Richard Bejtlich’s Tao of Network Security Monitoring for one of my classes at school. I came across the date -r command Richard was using to translate UNIX epoch times to a readable time format. The date command that shipped with my distribution of Linux does not support the -r flag, so I […]

Why are so many conferences filled with so much marketing dribble? I planned on going to a lot more talks while at SCALE but only attended one in its entirety. Some presenters started off their presentation stating they would “market” their product for the first five minutes, but then continued throughout the rest of their […]