Archive for 'Network Security'
Can IPS alleviate the botnet problem?
Botnets are back in the news. Leading experts have recently gone on record stating we are losing the war on botnets. Then yesterday, McAfee released a whitepaper showing startling success in Central America against botnets. This has ignited a debate in both the IPS and botnet sub-cultures of the Information Security World.
Botnets are problematic for [...]
Posted: October 26th, 2006 under Network Security, Security.
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Paper: Evolution of the hacker threat posted
During recent months I created a presentation which described the recent evolution of hackers, primarily covering their motivations. This we presented in the UK, France and Germany. There were follow up presentations in Poland and the Czech Republic. However, rather than create a world tour, I changed the presentation into the format of an article [...]
Posted: September 12th, 2006 under Host Security, Management, Network Security, Security.
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Wifi Security Law passes California assembly
California Assembly Bill 2415 ( by Speaker Fabian Núñez ) passed today and now goes to the Governor. What does it actually do?
http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/members/a46/press/a462006116.htm
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/15397371.htm
Hopefully it means more secure wireless networks. In the Bay Area almost 50% of consumer wireless access points have no encryption turned on. Many of these devices have their passwords still set to [...]
Posted: August 30th, 2006 under Network Security, Security.
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Is Google Wifi/WiMax safe and secure?
Today Google finally opened their free GoogleWifi to all residents of Mountain View California. Tempted though I am to ditch my current provider and migrate to Google, I must question….How am I sure it is Google I am connecting to?
It could be an ‘Evil Twin’ access point masquerading as a legitimate Google Wifi Access point. [...]
Posted: August 16th, 2006 under Management, Network Security, Security.
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WEP 128 Bit cracking in 2 minutes
Just returned from the UK and Germany. I did a press tour showing how simple it is to crack the Wireless WEP protocol. We broke 128 bit encryption in just under 2 minutes using just a Linux laoptop (running PHLAK). Scary stuff when you consider that over 90% of those using Wireless security are using [...]
Posted: July 29th, 2006 under Network Security.
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Hacker Education
Approximately 2 months ago I headed off to Paris to give a demonstration of Hacking techniques. One of the audiences was composed of journalists. We covered the Foundstone step-by-step methodology and gave live demonstrations of taking a machine on the internet down, in addition to rootkit installation.
http://www.mcafee.com/us/about/press/corporate/2006/20060502_235020_n.html
There has been a great growth in the last [...]
Posted: July 26th, 2006 under Network Security.
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