CISO Interview Series – Michael Peters
Profile Subject: Michael Peters
Michael Peters has been an independent information security consultant, executive, researcher and author, with more than 25...
General security
The Enderground: The Last Meeting – Chapter One
The sharp short sound of a black agent hibernating his Laptop's OS echoed in the room. The box banged shut making the screen and the keypad kiss each other....
VLAN hacking
In Virtual LAN or VLAN is a group of hosts communicate with each other, even thoughthey are in different physical location. Virtual LAN provides location independence...
C&A: The Square Peg
This C&A related call for help is from Latonya in Washington, DC:
Need help! I am desperately searching for an instruction that will exempt a legacy fielded...
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'...
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...