NMon provides a new appliance ‘nBox Recorder‘ or ‘The Packet-to-Disk Recorder‘. The goal is simple: lot of security analyzis are based on packet captures. This box just performs a simple but critical tasks: It captures the traffic and stores it under the pcap format. Then? Just take your time to
Category: Security
Google Encryption Toolkit
Google released a interesting toolkit for all developers: KeyCzar. Data encryption is a requirement in most of modern applications. Developers have to be “security minded” (it’s also our goal as security professional to perform a continuous awareness to security). But cryptography, if badly implemented, can lead to enormous security breaches.
Phone Call Strong Authentication
OpenID is a free service which offers strong authentication to websites (already covered by a previous post). Strong authentication is based on a two factors authentication: something you know, something you have or something you are (more details here). Trustbearer offered strong authentication via, as example, the Belgian eID Card.
Airport CheckPoint Toy
You travel with your children from time to time? Prepare them to all the security checks performed at the airport! How? Here is a nice toy available at Amazon: an airport x-ray scanner! (Source: Korben’s blog)
The Art of Patching
Finally! After weeks of “yellow status” reported by PSI (Personal Software Inspector from Secunia), my profesional notebook finally went “green”! I’m using PSI for a while on my notebook which has plenty of installed applications: productivity, connectivity, security, reporting tools and much more. Since the beginning, I was never able
Google .vs. Privacy
A few weeks ago, Google said “Complete privacy does not exist“. That’s true! So true that the NPLC (National Legal and Policy Center) released a PDF file containing sensitive information about Larry Page, one of the co-founder of Google.
How to 0wn a Cam?
So simply and non destructive! (Source: http://www.gizmodo.fr/2008/07/31/la-camera-vaincue-par-le-ballon.html)
Security Fun
Source: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080726.
Backdoor
Sh*t! I forgot my access badge!
Bud Has Mail
Often, a video is the best way to train people or promote some best practices. Watchguard released some nice video tutorials about security. Like the French children books “Martine” (You know “Martine goes to the market“, “Martine visit her friends“, etc), we follow the adventures of Bud, a dummy regular