…although arguably not necessarily in a good way. On the other and, any press is good press, right?

Wired Blog has an entry about the recent ridiculous suit filed by the RIAA against the Russian MP3 site. With the RIAA claiming that AllOfMP3 has been used to “pirate” 11 million songs and with the U.S. […]

Have you ever been concerned about accessing the web when you’re out at a public wifi hotspot or at a seminar or conference (especially a security-based one)? People could be sniffing the air (or even the wire) looking for interesting traffic or just to mess with people. How about simply setting up an SSH tunnel […]

For those attuned to such matters, you’ll notice that I am not running the latest version of K2 on The Geek Blog and therefore I don’t have the Sidebar Modules. So why am I writing about this? Because I am running our main family website on K2 v0.9.1 which DOES include this function. […]

Saturday morning was my scheduled CISM exam. The night before I had checked what I needed and put everything in the car, ready for the morning. The exam was at 9am, so I got up and ready and was in the car around 8am. I glanced over at my admission form and […]

Sam Stryke has a new album released for Christmas this year, which I found exciting. I first came across Sam’s music waaaay back in 1991 when I met him in a local “Believe in Music” store in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was self-promoting his first album, called “In the Wind”. I talked […]

I read an entry by Ed Skoudis yesterday on the SANS Handler’s diary that was was pretty basic but interesting. He talks about using the built-in Windows tool “netstat” to provide some forensic and diagnostic information for various analysis needs — mainly things like incident handling, vulnerability assessment, malware analysis, etc.