2005: A Cisco Space Odyssey

One of the main attractions of this year’s FIRST event is the emphasis on networking with other security professionals. Certainly from my discussions with various delegates over the last few days – this is one of the main...

With so many staff working at home one or two days a week and everyone wanting connectivity from anywhere in the world, laptops have become very important tools.Pretty much every organisation now has a VPN to give staff remote...

The large number of services running on a typical Windows or UNIX server is more than enough to discourage a network admin with too little time and too few resources from determining which are needed and which are redundant. As a...

There’s another backdoor into many large networks which few organisations seem to recognise or understand – Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). SNMP is the Internet standard protocol developed to manage nodes (servers,...

A conference that attracts top security professionals from around the world is very tempting to hackers. Unless properly secured, the conference network could be vulnerable to attacks intended to disrupt the conference activity...

I imagine that most people would consider the chances of an attacker guessing a privileged account name and password in two or three guesses to be astronomical. Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth. Breaking...

Monitoring malicious packets on the Internet is known to be an effective method to detect threats posed by Internet worms etc. Most of the current research on Internet monitoring and threat detection are conducted on the basis of...

Social engineering used to be virtually unknown in the IT community – except, that is, amongst its practitioners. The recent wave of phishing scams (spoofed e-mails designed to harvest your credit card details) has raised...

IP network level threats are faced by all IP applications. For the last 10 or more years the IP security industry has been building Firewalls to protect web, email and other application servers from flooding attacks, malformed...

If I were to wander into your offices, plug in my laptop and within minutes take control of your network infrastructure, would you be surprised?There’s a backdoor into many large networks which few organisations seem to recognise...

Voxant, the Viral Syndication Network announced an agreement with AP Digital, a commercial division of The Associated Press (AP), that will make a selection of AP news video, articles and photos available to thousands of Web...

Fresh in from the Anti-spyware Coalition workshop, I hope to be writing a bit about third party ad networks. But this headline just caught my eye:Major AdNetworks Promote Porn? Probably one the most disturbing things in the...

In a recent survey conducted by the U.S. Secret Service together with Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute CERT Program found that eighty-six percent of people who carried out insider sabotage held...

Surfing on the wave of the Social Networking bubble, the first (and original) niche online social network, Community Connect, re-launched one of their properties: AsianAvenue.com , MiGente.com , and BlackPlanet.com.Community...

I was intrigued by an Internet Usage Investor Update from ComScore and commissioned by UBS which somehow made its way to my desktop.The report provides investors with a snapshot of audience data and trends and the April issue...