Security Ripcord


Archive for March, 2006

Vi$io Costs How Much?

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006 Posted in Microsoft, Network Diagrams, Tools | 1,787 views 1 Comment »

So I walked into CompUSA the other day thinking that I was going to purchase Microsoft Visio. How wrong I was. The problem wasn't that they didn't have ... Read more..

Snort and Sourcefire are staying at home

Friday, March 24th, 2006 Posted in IDS, Snort, Sourcefire | 1,023 views No Comments »

I am not sure why yet but Sourcefire and Checkpoint have decided to not move forward with the acquisition effort. I noticed it this morning on the TaoSecurity Blog. ... Read more..

Safe Password Storag….Damn IT

Friday, March 24th, 2006 Posted in Passwords, Security, Tools | 1,762 views No Comments »

So, I was recently asked by a client to recommend a good password generator so that the company employees didn't have to think of their own passwords. Well, I ... Read more..

The Doctor has a very cool plugin

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006 Posted in Firefox, Tools, Web | 1,063 views No Comments »

Ed Finker's recent article points out an interesting extension that I was not aware of until reading about it. Although online virus checkers are not new they are relatively ... Read more..

Blogging Push Ups

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006 Posted in Emotional, Helpful | 1,044 views No Comments »

Up - down - up -down. First the site is up and then it is back down again. Although this has been the recent behavior for this site ... Read more..

NMap Parser for XML Output Files

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006 Posted in NMap, PDC, Tools | 2,230 views No Comments »

Paul at PaulDotCom.com put out a call for scripts using the perl module NMap Parser. This is one that I had and cleaned up a little bit. Basically this script will ... Read more..

Blog Name Change – Security Ripcord to the Rescue

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006 Posted in Blogging | 1,304 views No Comments »

Well, I guess I should have Googled for the title Security Matters before I decided to use it as my blog's title. Luckily the title Security Ripcord appears to be ... Read more..

Modifying the Paros Proxy User-Agent String

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006 Posted in Paros Proxy, Penetration Testing, Tools | 4,899 views 6 Comments »

Paros Proxy is an open source web assessment tool that gives the user the ability to spider websites, analyze content, modify requests, and much more. This proxy is a necessary ... Read more..

Cutaway Security: RSS Feeds

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006 Posted in Blogging, Feeds | 995 views No Comments »

The following links come from my RSS feeds. Even if I cannot read everything, I try to look through each one to see if there is anything important that I ... Read more..

Personal Security Is YOUR Problem

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006 Posted in Levels of Awareness, Security | 1,151 views 1 Comment »

Bruce Schneier recently commented on a bank robbery that occurred in the UK. BBC News has a two part article that details the robbery and then the investigation. The following ... Read more..