Friday, April 11th, 2008
SanDisk has warned that IT managers are unaware of the extent to which unsecured flash drives are being brought into their organizations, backing this with a new study of corporate end-users and IT executives.
The study found that 77% corporate end-users surveyed have admitted to using personal flash drives for work-related ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Traditional IDS/IPS systems occur at the network level, usually plugged into a spanning port on a switch. I love this concept and think it should be part of any defense in depth strategy. The two primary weaknesses in these devices are, (1) they cannot process encrypted streams and (2) they ...
Posted in Coding, Internet, Security | 2 Comments
Friday, April 11th, 2008
When all of your users have decided to keep their passwords written down on sticky notes, on their hands and under their keyboards how do you protect them from themselves? You could go ahead and rip off each of their finger nails (ouch) until they promise to never write it ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Seeing as I've just spent the morning trying to get all this up and running I thought I'd create an entry about how to get Backtrack running in VirtualBox.
For those who haven't heard of it, VirtualBox is an open source equivalent to vmware workstation. It does full snapshoting (unlike vmware ...
Posted in Coding, Linux, Privacy, Security, Software | 5 Comments
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
The IronKey, designed to be the world’s most secure flash drive, protects your data, online passwords, and Internet privacy. Now you can safely carry your digital life with you wherever you go—with confidence and peace of mind. While it uses advanced security technologies previously only available to government agents and ...
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