“October is Cyber Security Awareness Month and this year the SANS Internet Storm Center is going to offer daily tips on each of the six steps of incident handling areas according to the following schedule: Preparation: October 1-4 Identification: October 5-11 Containment: October 12-18 Eradication: October 19-25 Recovery: October 26-31
Month: September 2008
Workstation (Un)locking Using Bluetooth
When you use a workstation (PC, laptop or thin client), it’s important to lock it when you are away for a while or funny things may happen. Usually, the screen is automatically locked after a configurable inactivity period. To unlock it you need to type a password or, on some
Belgian Comic: Hacker (Tome #1)
A Belgian comic serie is born: Hacker, published by Joker Editions. “2046, digital technologies and Internet are heavily deployed. Implants are injected in human bodies pushing the limit of real and virtual worlds (Matrix alike). The new generation of implants is wireless and prevent them to be disconnected… All ingredients
New VMware Workstation Feature: Unity!
VMware Workstation 6.5 is out! One of the new features is a display mode similar to the “seamless” mode in VirtualBox! For those who are not aware of this feature, it allows you to “hide” the guest machine main screen encapsulated in a windows and open applications directly on the
Intrusive Browser Alert Advertisement
Some advertisers spammers have great ideas to send unsolicited messages to a targeted audience. Their goal is to convince the end-user to click on an advertisement. A new method seemed to appear on the web recently: They simulate a browser security warning! Often, users doesn’t even read the warning message
BGP, The Next Internet Vulnerability?
Internet is a mesh of very complex networks. All of them are interconnected in several ways and exchange data. A meshed network means that they are multiple paths available to reach a specific network. If we look at the Internet fundamentals, the “Network of Networks” relies on a small list
DiY Network Sniffer
From time to time, network administrators have to use a sniffer to capture flows of packets . In a switched environment, packets are sent from a source to a destination and only the destination host can “see” the packet. To be able to receive all the packets sent into a
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-09-14
Anobody has experience with Imperva SecureSphere WAF? # I hate working with sections in Word! # Sun + Terrasse + Wifi = Nice work # One day off and it’s raining! Grmbl…. # WordPress updated to 2.6.2 #
Secunia Opens Exploits e-Shop
Secunia announced in its blog a new service: “One Stop Exploit Shop” To resume, they will propose exploits and security breaches PoC to security professional trough their website against some $$$. As stated in the announce, after approval by Secunia (at least!), vendors and companies will have access to the