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Case Of The Robotic Reflex - Part XI

November 14th, 2008
"I beg your pardon?" I asked after fully digesting Cedric's admission. "You KNOW that address?" "I sure do. That box is at Cookie's house. It's a company-owned machine that she uses to monitor the network. It's a linux box. I built it myself about a ...

Missing Content On Chief’s Site

November 14th, 2008
I thought I was losing my little monkey mind, but I've finally figured out why a huge chunk of content "disappeared" from postings over the past 5 years. Apparently the server that someone was nice enough to let me use has disappeared resulting in th...

Automatic Content Filtering Fail

November 14th, 2008
I have been a critic of automatic on-the-fly web content filtering for a long time. Sometimes the results of such filtering can be quite entertaining. Take this little diddy from today's Yahoo Buzz: <td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align

This Is Their Day. Our Day.

November 11th, 2008
For the nervousness when sworn in For the months of grueling training For the sleepless nights before deployment For the heartbreaking goodbyes said to families and friends For the confusion and fear and exasperation felt when the action started For the ability to reach down, down to depths unknown, and keep going, and surviving For the agony of watching a brother/sister in arms die at the hands of the enemy For the bravery of continuing on For the sound of silence after

Case Of The Robotic Reflex - Part X

October 22nd, 2008
Scrap and I had clocked nearly an entire week of billable hours since Kip's request for help. We rigged a temporary network of sanitized machines behind a known good firewall for temporary internet access and were nearly done with our forensic examin...

Social Engineering: Still The Weapon Of Choice

October 8th, 2008
Reader J writes:I was looking at this thread:http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/securitymonkey/would-you-mind-0wning-me-while-im-gone-16075 And it reminded me about something that happened a few weeks ago. I received a cold head-hunter call to my office n...

Social Engineering: Still The Weapon Of Choice

October 8th, 2008
Reader J writes:I was looking at this thread:http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/securitymonkey/would-you-mind-0wning-me-while-im-gone-16075 And it reminded me about something that happened a few weeks ago. I received a cold head-hunter call to my office n...

When Do You Stop?

October 8th, 2008
Reader pand0ra writes:So Chief, I have a question for you and your readers. I took a SANS forensics class a few months ago and one thing I learned is that there seems to be only a few similarities to traditional forensics (then again, maybe there are...

When Do You Stop?

October 8th, 2008
Reader pand0ra writes:So Chief, I have a question for you and your readers. I took a SANS forensics class a few months ago and one thing I learned is that there seems to be only a few similarities to traditional forensics (then again, maybe there are...

Sorry For The Delay!

October 6th, 2008
Sorry for the 3-week delay in postings everyone. Things have been insane here in the information security jungle. Excuses aside I'll be posting a few case file updates this week and I'm soliciting more entries for Banana Cupboard stories. If you have...