UPDATE: It’s been some time since I posted this, but I just read a post called Linux Hardening – Quick Wins that reinforces my thinking on this point; if you don’t need a service, you shouldn’t have it running: Disable IPv6: Unless you know that you need it, disabling IPv6 is a good idea as it… Read more »
Posts Tagged: security
Citizen's laptops may be detained at border: no suspicion required
Ok, I’ve read this a few times, but I still cannot believe it. Yesterday the Department of Homeland Security disclosed that traveler’s laptop computers “or other electronic devices” can be confiscated, without any suspicion of a crime! Better yet, they can make and share copies of your data, have the data translated, unencrypted, etc. This… Read more »
Black Hat and Defcon: all the drama you've been craving
This is great, Defcon16 is a mere few days away, but already, the drama has started! Of course there’s the excitement about security guru/celebrity Dan Kaminsky discovering the DNS flaw a few months back that will be revealed this week (so that folks won’t be able to reverse-engineer them to exploit the vulnerability…ahead of time… Read more »
Reasons to use a web proxy in a production environment
NOTE: at work I installed a web proxy to separate internal user traffic from external traffic hitting our production servers. While I’m not part of the network team, they asked me to do this because of my prior experience and interest in such things. The idea of this was to be a temporary fix until… Read more »
Use a safer browser!
If anything, that should be the message to all Internet surfers out there. This graphic shows the danger, the percentage of users who have their browsers at their most secure, in regards to patches/updates being applied. Clearly people running IE aren’t going through the trouble of updating, while Firefox has updates built in that you… Read more »
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