Carlos Morales's Posts

Security Limitations of Dialup

November 2, 2006 by Carlos Morales

Most of the security discussions that I have involving infected hosts on the Internet tend to be focused around broadband users. It’s true: DSL, Cable modem and other high speed access technologies have given miscreants who own bot armies unbelievable amounts of bandwidth with which to launch attacks. This area should be the focus of [...]

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Say NO to RFPs!

July 10, 2006 by Carlos Morales

I don’t know who dislikes RFPs more: vendors who have to answer them or customers who have to create them and then read all the responses. There aren’t too many things that waste more time than RFPs. I understand the original premise of these: they were a way for a customer to define their needs [...]

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Security Employment Here to Stay

July 4, 2006 by Carlos Morales

There will always be jobs in security. Why, you ask? Because the world has an endless string of bad people, ruthlessly ambitious people, desperate people, or just people willing to go to any length to show that they can do things that they are not supposed to. A couple of weeks ago, there was a [...]

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