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Wake up people, you are falling into the same old theistic behavior that we all as evolved sentient beings should eschew, neigh, …loathe. INFOSEC is not a religion and YOU are not the FUCKING POPE ok? That’s a quote from Krypt3ia on his blog entitled "Infosec is not a religion". He says this in his […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Holy crap, we recorded an episode. That’s all I got to say about that… Show Notes: InfoSec News Update – Howard Schmidt is Retiring – Link Here Vulnerability Stats of Publicly Traded Companies – Link Here Tool Update – Threadfix from Denim Group – Link Here The Mission Impossible Self-Destructing SATA SSD Drive – Link […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Today’s show is Michael interviewing Kevin Riggins. Kevin is an Enterprise Security Architect for a Fortune 500 financial services company. Kevin and Michael have some great conversation about Kevin’s job, what he is doing at RSA, where he blogs, the book he coauthored, etc. (look below in the show notes for links to everything). Then […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Thanks go to Jeremiah Grossman for sitting down with Michael for some great discussion. Jeremiah is the CTO at Whitehat Security and a very well known figure in the InfoSec industry. Jeremiah and Michael talk about Hawaii, sharks, security philosophy, RSA, stage fright, Jeremiah’s TED talk (not published as of the posting of this entry), […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Recently some news came out from NY Times and HD Moore where he was doing some targeted scanning and found a bunch of open H.323 videoconference systems open and ready for viewing. What he found was that a lot of these systems are deployed outside of the firewall on the Internet without any security and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
This is from a local Houston Symantec source, but is widely available to everyone. Current on date of posting. We’ll see what shakes out. "Symantec can confirm that a segment of its source code used in two of our older enterprise products has been accessed, one of which has been discontinued. The code involved is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
I was going through some old blog posts, and one I found contained the following story: Mouse Story A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. "What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Wow! 6 Months…and 2 job changes later, we are finally back to recording! YEAH!….Here the latest show from our intrepid hosts. Show Notes: InfoSec News Update – The Hacker News Hacking Awards : Best of Year 2011 – Link Here Japan’s Anti-Virus Virus – Link Here Nginx (pronunciation: "engine-ex") becomes #2 web server Saudi hackers […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
My wife and I homeschool, so we include our kids in a lot of extracurricular "stuff" to hopefully keep them well-rounded. One of the things my oldest son does is take a Lego engineering class at a small local school that caters to homeschoolers. Last year, when we first signed up for the school, we […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
A while back I tweeted about my acceptance of the Security Technology Advocate role at Accuvant. To be clear, I am not going to be fully transitioned into the role until Jan 1, 2012. But I have been doing some work in the new gig, and I have already experienced a lot of changes on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
