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Network Security Blog
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The views of one man on security, privacy and anything else that catches his attention. The views expressed on this blog do not reflect the views of my employer or anyone other than myself.
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Network Security Podcast, Episode 275
By the grace of FSM, schedules synced up this week so we could all get together (despite Martin’s perpetual jet lag). Narrowly avoiding a discussion of CISPA (we’ll save that for later), the gang touches on some vulnerability disclosure gaffes, an “attack back” proposal (what year is this?), and more. Network Security Podcast, Episode 275, May [...]
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Network Security Podcast, Episode 272 v2
As a follow up to last week?s episode, Martin was joined last week by Josh Corman to talk to Wade Baker about the 2012 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report. Wade talks to us about how the information for the report was gathered, some of the strengths and weaknesses of the analysis and finally how the amazing puzzle [...]
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Something to think on from Source Boston
“The Internet will never again be as free as it is this morning” – Dan Geer at SOURCE Boston Think on that for a while. If it doesn’t scare you, it should. Update: Here’s the full text of Dan Geer’s talk at SOURCE Boston
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Network Security Podcast, Episode 274
The gang is scattered to the wind. Rich is off at some random Margaritaville and Zach is pretending he has a real life and a new job or something. So Martin called out the cavalry and is joined tonight by none other than Dave Lewis, aka Gattaca on twitter (I bet many of you didn’t [...]
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This is why CISPA scares me
Unlike it’s brethren, SOPA and PIPA, CISPA doesn’t scare me because it’s aimed at shutting down piracy and giving the media companies unheard of powers. CISPA scares me because it is aimed at letting companies share information between each other and with the government in order to stop bad guys, which is a noble cause. [...]
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Network Security Podcast, Episode 273
Zach is off settling in to the new job and prepping for Source Boston, but Rich and Martin managed to get together to discuss travel, the latest security news, and Rich’s rant on the whole Mac malware thing. And Martin apologizes to listeners for the mixup with episode 272. … Network Security Podcast, Episode 273, [...]
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Network Security Podcast, Episode 272
As a follow up to last week?s episode, Martin was joined last week by Josh Corman to talk to Wade Baker about the 2012 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report. Wade talks to us about how the information for the report was gathered, some of the strengths and weaknesses of the analysis and finally how the amazing puzzle [...]
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Global Payment Systems delisted by Visa
Last Friday Brian Krebs broke the story that MasterCard and Visa were warning of a major processor breach. Later in the day it was announced that the payment processor was Global Payment Inc. and that approximately 50,000 card numbers had been compromised, a number that was later revised to 1.5 million card numbers. Global Payment [...]
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Network Security Podcast, Episode 271
Since Rich is on the road this week, Martin and Zach are joined by none other than friend of the podcast, Josh Corman. Which is not that surprising, since there’s only one story we’re talking about tonight, the latest Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report. There’s a lot to talk about again in this year’s report, [...]
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TSA blocks Schneier from testifying
If you don’t know who Bruce Schneier is, I hope you’re coming to my site because I wrote about the TSA, not because your a security professional. He wrote several books that are staples on almost every security professionals’ shelves. You could literally say he wrote the book on applied cryptography, since that’s the title [...]
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