Archive for March, 2007

Phoenix catalyst meetup, ShmooCon

Tonight I had a great time hanging out with Michael Santarcangelo of Security Catalyst, Andre Gironda, Erich Newell and Adam Muntner. There were a bunch of other guys (and Grace!) there, but I apologize for not remembering your names. It was fun talking though! Gotta watch out for that one dude’s company who has had […]

Incompetent blurring

While chatting in #snort-gui today, somebody noticed Gizmodo was showing off their ticket to Apple NAB. You can see they blurred the Name, Company and barcode on the ticket. Whoever did this, did a poor job because they didn’t blur the name on the right-hand side.. What was the point of blurring it? Not to […]

Are we taking vulnerabilities less seriously?

The OpenBSD IPv6 Remote DoS vulnerability has striked debate and strong reaction on whether denial-of-service is a security vulnerability or not. Let’s go back to the fundamentals we all learned early on: C-I-A, Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability. We can have the most secure systems in the world by disconnecting them from everything and making them […]

Dell and Linux - Survey

Thanks to the amount of feedback on Ideastorm, Dell is seriously considering pre-installing Linux on desktop systems. Having had the chance to play with the Core 2 Duo systems Dell puts out, I can definitely say they are pimpin’. I want one, but my main concern is Linux hardware compatibility. I would like a stable […]

Worst captcha - how about an insulting one?

I laughed when I saw the Worst Captcha Ever and just had to show the one I came across a couple months ago that was featured on the DailyWTF (now known as Worse Than Failure).
Too funny!