Secure Surfing

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...

"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'...

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/"...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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.

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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