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From Dark Reading: An Israeli mobile security firm that a month ago offered $100,000 in gold to anyone who could hack its voice encryption technology has upped the ante to $250,000. Gold Lock posted a sample of an encrypted voice conversation on its Website and is offering the golden reward to any hackers who can [...]

Found a great article on network broadcasts today on ISC SANS: So Rob, you say, aren’t we done talking about protecting switches and the like at Layer 2 yet?  We talked about Man in the Middle Attacks in October, and Layer 2 remediation against Man in the Middle Attacks in November, that should cover it, [...]

From Dark Reading’s SophosLabs Insights: The latest iPhone worm is much more malicious than the last one. Rather than the Ikee worm’s trick of changing your wallpaper to a (for some disturbing) image of 1980s pop star Rick Astley, the Duh worm hijacks your jailbroken iPhone, turning it into part of a botnet. As if [...]

From Dark Reading: If you’re not in the office these days, chances are that you’ve brought the office with you. Mobile devices, from laptop computers to smart phones, are becoming standard issue in business. But the security of those devices is a lot less certain. According to market analysis firm Gartner, Inc., global smart phone [...]

I found an interesting article on Tech Republic that I wanted to pass along. In the above “60 Minutes” video, correspondent Steve Kroft spoke with former and current US government officials and private-sector security about the nation’s vulnerability to cyber attack. “If I were an attacker and I wanted to do strategic damage to the [...]

From Tech Republic: Microsoft began enabling IPv6 protocol by default with the release of Vista. That policy continued with Windows Server 2008 and will with Windows 7. Apple, Linux, and Solaris are also shipping their latest distributions with IPv6 enabled. Before continuing, I need to explain something. We all understand that IPv6 is important… I’m [...]

Tech Crunch has a great article about the twitter attack that resulted in the posting of confidential Twitter documents online. The Twitter document leak fiasco started with a simple story that personal accounts of Twitter employees were hacked. Twitter CEO Evan Williams commented on that story, saying that Twitter itself was mostly unaffected. No personal [...]

From Microsoft’s website: Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) is a comprehensive Secure Web Gateway solution that helps protect employees from Web-based threats. It also delivers simple, unified perimeter security with integrated firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention, malware inspection and URL filtering. Forefront TMG Beta3 is available for download in both Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition. This [...]

The SophosLabs has a good blog article about the update to Conficker’s call home routine. Although Mal/Conficker-B will generate 50,000 domains per day, the worm will randomly choose only 500 of those domains to attempt to rendezvous with that day. Furthermore, it only tries to resolve each of those 500 domains once per day. This [...]

I’ve been following Joel Esler for awhile and found a blog post that reminded me of my daily grind.  Here’s an except, the entire thing can be found at his blog, Finshake. Stop that.  You’re doing it wrong. This is a very puzzling situation that I run across quite often, more often than I should.  [...]