Confident KillSwitch Helps Combat Brute-Force Attacks
Confident Technologies Inc.'s (CTI) KillSwitch collects data on hacking attempts to help information security (IS) professionals safeguard their companies'...
General security
A history of anonymous
Anonymous is the most famous 'hacktivist' group in the world. The informal nature of the group makes its mechanics difficult to define. Subsequently, without...
Cracking Democracy – Hacking Electronic Voting Machines
Communications around the world are gradually going digital.
I was born in 1984. I would expect, if I entered a typical office workplace that year, to find...
Understanding the Public Key Infrastructure behind SSL secured websites
Synopsis: Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) has recently been the focus of several important discussions within the information security community due to high...
Five Steps to Incident Management in a Virtualized Environment
Incident management (IM) is a necessary part of a security program. When effective, it mitigates business impact, identifies weaknesses in controls, and helps...
Are your backup systems secure?
All seemed well with backup operations at my company, until I got a visit from an operations center engineer. The lock already hanging open, he was holding...
Kevin Finisterre Reveals His Process for Security Research
In our ongoing series of interviews, this week Kevin Finisterre answered a few questions and pulled back the curtain a bit on the methods, tools and motivation...
Are YOU Wearing A Hoodie?
Fox recently canceled their show about hackers "Breaking In."
Whatever you might have thought about the show, it got people talking and thinking about hackers....
Haroon Meer Reveals His Process for Security Research
In our ongoing series of interviews, this week Haroon Meer answered a few questions and pulled back the curtain a bit on the methods, tools and motivation for...
Matthieu Suiche Reveals His Process for Security Research
In our ongoing series of interviews, this week Matthieu Suiche answered a few questions and pulled back the curtain a bit on the methods, tools and motivation...