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Archive for February, 2009

Incident Response Lessons Learned

Thursday, February 19th, 2009 Posted in Incident Response, Leadership, Management, Security | 2,743 views 3 Comments »

Following up on any project is key.  Talking to all involved about what has happened, why it happened, how it could have better, what worked very well, etc is the ... Read more..

Should you be thinking about Virut?

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 Posted in Incident Response, Malware, Security | 3,966 views 2 Comments »

While everybody has been busy responding to Conficker/Downadup a nasty little virus loosely known as Virut has begun to make itself known.  When I first heard about this a co-worker ... Read more..

Scout Sniper v0.2 Released

Monday, February 16th, 2009 Posted in Incident Response, Malware, Security, forensics | 3,020 views No Comments »

I just updated the Scout Sniper page with a new release of the tool.  Actually, this tool was originally called Yara-Scout Sniper but I changed the name because of the ... Read more..

Canary in the Spam Mine

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 Posted in Email, Incident Response, Security, Twitter, forensics | 2,201 views No Comments »

Thomas H. Ptacek of Matasano Security asked a question to all of the Twits following his tqbf twitter account: Quick, Twitterverse. You put a "canary" email account in your database to ... Read more..

Marked by Breach Disclosure

Friday, February 6th, 2009 Posted in Breaches, Data, Poll, Security, Web | 1,715 views No Comments »

I stopped reading Jeremiah Grossman's blog post Indirect Hard Losses to write this poll.  I am happy to see that people are showing their opinions to breaches through their wallets ... Read more..

Leasons from GSP vs. BJ UFC Fight

Sunday, February 1st, 2009 Posted in Management, Security | 2,877 views 1 Comment »

I was completely wrong about the outcome of the UFC® 94 ST-PIERRE VS PENN 2 fight.  I was hoping that BJ would pull it out but it was very apparent ... Read more..