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GFI LANGuard Tutorial

July 15, 2009
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SecurityDistro.com has published my tutorial on how to use GFI LANGuard to find and resolve security vulnerabilities on your network.

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Bruce Schneier on Certificate Authorities

December 31, 2008

“The CA system is broken, but it works because broken systems tend to be better for society, which needs fluidity in the face of complicated social constructs,” Schneier said. “Systems that are broken but work are very common in the real world: Front door locks are surprisingly pickable. Think of faxed signatures, for example. It’s [...]

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Well-designed security systems fail gracefully, SonicWALL does not

December 6, 2008

To quote Bruce Schneier, “well-designed security systems fail gracefully”.  This means for example when the ISA firewall service fails it closes off network connectivity entirely (ie retains security) instead of opening your entire network up (ie decreases security).
This week SonicWALL’s license servers suffered a glitch rendering thousands of customer units useless and leaving the customers’ [...]

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SharePoint Security Resources

November 17, 2008

Microsoft provides two useful resources for MOSS security:

Security for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (downloadable book)
Office SharePoint Server Security Account Requirements (worksheet)

Link: John Westworth’s blog on Technet

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Steve Riley on hypervisor attacks

September 5, 2008

 
You have to ask: is there malware on my system? You can be 100 per cent certain there is no malware that you can detect, but less than 100 per cent certain that there is no malware at all. Now, ladies and gentlemen, isn’t this true of every computer we already have? There is no [...]

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Mr Simon Okoye needs my help!

February 22, 2008

Spam doesn’t normally catch my attention, but this particular piece of spam left as a comment on this site really caught my eye. I’ve read spam emails before, but never this ridiculous.
{Dear Sir. Mr. Dr. D.I.}
i am mr simon okoye from london,,the Executive director operations intercontinental Bank plc Branch london,28years in Banking system guideline,58 [...]

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