Monthly Archives: August 2007
Which Security Certification Should I Get?
If you can, get the CISSP, don’t waste your time with anything else. You don’t have to make it your last cert, but (if you can) make it your first. It has become the gold standard that gives you “just … Continue reading
FBI point, click, Spy
The FBI has quietly built a sophisticated, point-and-click surveillance system that performs instant wiretaps on almost any communications device, according to nearly a thousand pages of restricted documents newly released under the Freedom of Information Act. The surveillance system, called … Continue reading
State of the North American Union: Mexican Trucks Begin Crossing Border Saturday
The decision to open up the borders for the sake of business was made in the 90s by the first Bush, finalized by President Clinton and nurtured by David Rockafeller (CFR). The entire package was called the North American Free … Continue reading
Monster.com Hacked?
Yesterday, we analyzed a sample of a new Trojan, called Infostealer.Monstres, which was attempting to access the online recruitment Web site, Monster.com. It was also uploading data to a remote server. When we accessed this remote server, we found over … Continue reading
REAL threats for federal ID mandates
The US federal government is threatening states who don’t participate in the REAL ID Act.   A showdown is looming. If the Real ID law stands, residents of states that refuse to comply wouldn’t be able to use their driver’s licenses as … Continue reading
Bruce Schneier’s Defcon Badge Goes for $200+
Get off of Bruce’s dick.. I was hoping to snatch it up for $3. To my surprise, it is over 200 duckets! The hell with that.
Note to Self: Google has a Security Blog
Googles Security Blog is thin on the posts but here it is: Google Security
Plaza East public housing development Security Cameras Ineffective?
An article at the SF Chronicle discusses the ineffectiveness of 178 cameras in a public housing development. “[The cameras] have never helped police officers arrest a homicide suspect even though about a quarter of the city’s homicides occur on or … Continue reading
India @ 60
Happy Birthday, India! Welcome to the arms race. You’ve gone from most enlightend, wise and anchient spiritual civilization to Westernized nuclear power. Sarcasm aside, I think its great that India is sprinting into modernization. As a nation they have already … Continue reading
Google Space
Google has an unorthodox style of business that continues to astound me. For one thing they started giving out 2 gigs of free space while Yahoo/MSN and others were still giving 250M and closing out accounts after 30 days of … Continue reading
