If you’ve been looking around the rest of our website, you’ll notice that I’ve changed jobs and am relocating out of Florida and back to Columbus, Ohio. As part of my new position I’ve been requested to obtain my CISSP. It’s something I’ve been wanting to get for a couple of years but I’ve been [...]

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Snort is the IDS sensor of choice among many security experts (myself included). I’ve worked and played with Snort for several years now, and while I don’t consider myself an expert, I’ve gained some knowledge about the application. Back when I first started messing around with it I came across many installation manuals. I took [...]

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Google has successfully fought back on the government’s request to provide them with search data. Yeah!! Now instead of the original request for two months of search data they will only have to provide 5,000 URLs without any search queries. Given the fact that the feds never gave an explanation as to why they need [...]

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In the words of a Boing Boing writer, “It’s sad to see what happens when you give some people a tin badge and a cap”. Two men wearing some type of uniform and baseball caps emblazoned with “Homeland Security” recently walked into a library in Bethesda, Maryland, demanded the attention of all patrons using computers, [...]

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Here’s an interesting article that questions many security issues around DRM and how it could impact other computer services, decrease security and trump reliability. While some of it may seem a bit far-fetched (such as causing disruption to a nuclear reactor when an employee puts a protected CD into a computer) it definitely brings to [...]

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Sign a pledge to boycott any CDs that contain any form of DRM. Interesting idea to draw attention to the issue. After it was linked on Boing Boing, it generated a couple thousand signatures in three days. Way to go! Now only if we can get the attention of those recording label executives who obviously [...]

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