June 18th, 2009
This has nothing to do with security, or my case files. This is an open post to you, my readers, on a topic which is very dear to me due to a recent unfortunate event in my life.
Those of you that follow me on twitter know that I recently lost one of...
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April 3rd, 2009
"What's he doing?"
Cedric was whispering questions into Scrap's ear as I busily typed away into a shell window.
"He's doing what he does. He's looking for a contact lens in shag carpet." Scrap joked as he watched me searching through files on Cookie'...
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February 7th, 2009
I am seriously getting sick of security companies spewing fear and terror to sell products. My inbox, voicemail and even my social network connections are full of this crap.
Case in point:
<a href="http://www.atomicsub.net/2009/01/iwork-09-virus/"...
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January 19th, 2009
Reader RS pointed me at this article at sans.org by Lenny Zeltser. It's a good read and lists many of my pet peeves about INFOSEC 'professionals'. I've listed a few here - but you need to click and read the article for the whole enchilada.
From the a...
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January 12th, 2009
A while back I wrote an incredibly popular post on getting a job in IT Security. With today's economy in a recession and unemployment approaching double-digits here in the United States, I thought it was time to revisit this post.
I received quite a ...
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January 9th, 2009
Apple provides us with a myriad of options to keep our data safe. These include Filevault , user sandboxing, encrypted disk images and smart user security & sandboxing (unlike another OS I know *cough* *cough*).
One complaint that I get from read...
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January 8th, 2009
To expand upon my last entry (the picture of the 'infected' Ubuntu box), I present to you a story from loyal reader BlueKnight:
Happy New Year Chief,
I thought you'd like this... so basic, yet it drives home the basic point that you should not trust anything that comes from an unknown source. When I got home from the gym after work last night around 7:30 PM, my wife was still over visiting a friend who asked for some computer help since he is technology challegned. The only thing she kn
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January 8th, 2009
Take a good look at the image below.
What's wrong with this picture?

If you ever need to convince someone that Anti-Virus 2009 is efficient at socially engineering the user - well, here it is.
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December 30th, 2008
Happy New Year! I'm still here, I'm just incredibly busy as usual. I hope to have some story goodness for you soon.
Cheers, and if you're going to have a few fermented banana drinks tomorrow night, please call a cab or use a designated driver. I want you all to have fun and make it home safe.
Chief
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November 23rd, 2008
Not to worry, the formula for Dr Pepper isn't changing. However, their web server configuration could use some massaging.
Taken from http://www.drpepper.com/freeDrPepper
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