An article I authored for searchsecurity.techtarget.com has just been published. The articled is entitled "IPv6 myths: Debunking misconceptions regarding IPv6 security features" and discusses a number of myths that have…
Reminds me of the iPhone & Andriod issue that made the news a while ago:iPhone: http://blogs.cisco.com/security/iphone-location-tracking-important-even-if-it-doesnt-matter-to-you/Android: https://github.com/packetlss/android-locdumpP.S.: No need to mention that I'm a DIlbert fan ;-)
From a BBC article:Malaysia car thieves steal fingerPolice in Malaysia are hunting for members of a violent gang who chopped off a car owner's finger to get round the vehicle's…
Folks,Our document "Recommendations for Transport-Protocol Port Randomization" has just been published as IETF RFC 6056.The Abstract of the RFC is:During the last few years, awareness has been raised about a…
This was posted on the NANOG mailing-list by Jack Bates. Well-said!As my corp IT guy put it to me, PAT forces a routing disconnect between internal and external. There is…
We have published an IETF Internet-Draft entitled "Defending Against Sequence Number Attacks", which is a revision of Steven Bellovin's RFC 1948. The Abstract of the I-D is:This document specifies an…
*********************************************************************** CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS*********************************************************************** LACSEC 2011 6th Network Security Event for Latin America and the Caribbean May 17-20, 2011, Cancun, Mexico http://lacnic.net/en/eventos/lacnicxv/index.htmlLACNIC (http://www.lacnic.net) is the international organization basedin (Uruguay) that…
I've just read the Technical report entitled "Understanding scam victims: seven principles for systems security" authored by Frank Stajano and Paul Wilson, about the exploitation of the "human factor" in…