If you’ve noticed (probably not), recently the server has been unreachable. A few weeks back this was due to a bad hard drive. I finally transferred everything over to the new hard drive and got the sites back up and running thanks to a few friends and The Planet.
Then this weekend, the data [...]
In our first installment, we looked at some solutions to provide a hospitable environment for proxy evasion. Today, we’ll dig deep into how to do this with my favorite protocol of all time, SSH.
OpenSSH is a glorious implementation of a critical network protocol. Most networks have disabled and banned the use of [...]
The American Populace is being inconvenienced, spied on, stripped of Constitutional Rights, and taxed without any idea where that money is going. The perpetrator is not some foreign, militant, activist group, it’s our own Government. There’s no outcry. All of these treacheries are being committed to increase security while the fact remains [...]
As you may or may not know, I am gainfully employed by the Federal Government in the area of Information Security. Recently the Bush Administration responded to media hype to issue a Federal Mandate requiring all government owned laptops use encryption technologies to encrypt their data.
There are two interpretations of this memo.
Encrypt the ENTIRE [...]
Bruce Schneier always has spot-on posts. Here’s his editorial on last week’s terror plots.
It’s really that simple. Stop being terrorized. Stop being scared to live. Stop taking life so seriously, you’re never gonna make it out alive. We don’t need billions of dollars of security screening software/hardware. Anyone with [...]
Most of the organizations I’ve been a part of, the IT staff usually has exemptions from IT policies if not significantly escalated privileges. This distances them from their users. I also happen to know and test MANY different ways to circumvent the policies and controls in place on the network. You can’t [...]
As a programmer, I’ve had the concept of “DON’T EVER TRUST YOUR USERS” beaten into my head. For programmers, this concept is incredibly important. Users almost always exceed your expectations for creativity with your new application. By planning for unexpected input, and properly cleaning all variables you can theoretically account for abuses [...]