Archive for July, 2006

Virus Names a Lost Cause?

July 26, 2006 by Mark Zielinski

SecurityFocus’ Robert Lemos published a number of months back an article in which he suggests that naming viruses is currently a lost cause. In the article, he mentioned how numerous security companies had warned their customers about a computer virus that had been programmed to delete files on the third of each month, but almost [...]

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WiFi, Encryption & Clue Density

July 26, 2006 by Danny McPherson

I regularly use wireless networks at meetings, conferences, airports, hotels, workshops, coffee joints, friend’s homes (and mine) – as I suspect is the case with most folks these days. I often leave Dug’s passive listening toolkit running in the background (where network usage licensing/agreements implicitly permit, of course :-) just to see what type of [...]

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Battling the Stupid-Bit

July 21, 2006 by Rob Malan

The Evil Bit! I’ve been thinking about RFC-3514 often over the last few quarters; that and what should be its cousin: the Stupid-Bit. I know you’re shaking your head now – poor CTO…too much time in the sales/marketing dunk tank. I’m serious, though. Not that you should be able to look at a bit in [...]

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