Yesterday, I started getting a bunch of warnings from the anti-virus program I’ve got installed on my Mac – F-Secure Mac Protection Technology Preview. Since I wasn’t doing anything out of the ordinary or perform any “suspicious” behavior, this was a surprise to me. (Especially considering I had only received one virus alert from the software in the last 3 months.) The below is a screenshot I grabbed shortly after this began. Every time I loaded a web page in my browser, a bunch of files would be detected and be automatically removed by the software. If I restarted the Google Chrome browser, the anti-virus deleted a critical enough file to cause Chrome to crash. Within about 20 minutes I[…]
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week, then you undoubtedly know that Japan was rocked a few days ago by an 8.9 magnitude earthquake (the 3rd largest in the past decade and top 10 overall – also check out the NYT’s before & after shots) and a subsequent tsunami that exponentially compounded the ill effects of the disaster. Coming out of that incident, one of the most hyped “news” items has been the aftermath at the Fukushima nuclear power generation facility. It turns out (unsurprisingly) that much of this coverage has been faulty, inappropriately throwing around talk of “melt downs” when, in fact, things are under control. For a great, detailed description of the entire incident,[…]
If you’re interested in online security, you’ve probably heard about HBGary. If you haven’t, here’s a brief rundown with a few links: A security firm, HBGary (or, more accurately, HBGary’s subsidiary HBGary Federal) announced that they had discovered the names of some of the supposed ringleaders of the “hacktivist” organization Anonymous. This “angered the hive” and – rather than the generally low-risk and unsophisticated DDOS attacks for which Anonymous is better known – Anonymous used a combination of social engineering, SQL Exploits, and password cracking to compromise one of HBGary’s servers. They leveraged that to get into multiple servers, ultimately gaining access to HBGary’s email and no few internal documents – including business plans and proposals to potential clients. Anonymous[…]
A couple of weeks ago, we brought to your attention the newly released two-factor authentication that Google rolled out for all of its web-based products (Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, etc). So now that it’s been out for a few weeks, and it’s finally had a chance to make its rounds to everyone’s accounts, let’s take a step back and see how it actually works.
Greetings from the 2011 RSA Conference in rainy San Francisco, CA. Yesterday I attended the opening keynotes of the conference, and a certain statement by RSA’s Art Coviello caught my ear and needs some further discussion. The conference opened with a fantastic video called “Giants Among Us” which provided a brief chronicle of the rise of public key cryptography, from Martin Hellman, Whitfield Diffie, and Ralph Merkel, to Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adelman. It was well produced and is worth a watch. Note: updated link to HD version. Art Coviello then came out and started his talk with a brief history of the 20 years of the RSA Conference, which was entertaining in its own right. He brought[…]
Unless you work for a network or internet service provider, there’s only so much you can do about the IPcalypse. But you can be ready for the IPv6 transition, and you really should be. We’ve seen this day coming for years now.