January 6, 2009 4:23 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
activex,
bho,
community,
Database,
information security,
malware,
research,
Security,
websiteHave you ever wondered if an application or running process is good or bad? Google searches do a good job of helping you determine if a process is legitimate or not. I just came across another resource in the fight against malicious software. It is a search engine for files, CLSID's, and...
December 10, 2008 1:19 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
anti-virus,
awareness,
documentation,
education,
howto,
IT education,
malware,
Networking,
online identity,
patching,
professional,
risk,
tools,
troubleshooting,
web,
websiteI recently came across the computer forums on Craigslist. I had heard of Craigslist previously but was not aware of the significant scope of what it offers besides classified ads. I'm not suggesting that folks leave ITKE to the Craigslist computer forums for support - far from that.
I have been...
December 3, 2008 3:50 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
administration,
anti-virus,
antivirus,
awareness,
Browsers,
data loss,
Data security,
education,
Firefox,
Firewalls,
homeland security,
IT education,
malware,
Microsoft,
Microsoft Windows,
online identity,
phishing,
risk,
Security,
spam,
SSL,
vulnerability
November 11, 2008 3:51 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
administration,
analysis,
awareness,
blog,
Data security,
debugging,
design,
Development,
malware,
Microsoft,
Microsoft Windows,
patching,
risk,
Security,
server,
vulnerabilityAs you probably already know, Microsoft issued an urgent out of cycle security patch recently for a Vulnerability in Server service could allow remote code execution. Look here for additional
October 10, 2008 7:58 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
analysis,
awareness,
botnet,
Data security,
dhs,
IT education,
malware,
Metrics,
Monitoring,
performance monitoring,
reporting,
research,
risk,
Security,
vulnerabilityIf you are into metrics, you might find this article rather interesting. For Good Measure: Type II Reverse Engineering
A couple of the security metrics I find interesting:
Counterfeit hosts...
October 6, 2008 1:12 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
administration,
analysis,
anti-virus,
Data security,
debugging,
diagnostics,
forensics,
howto,
internet,
LAN,
malware,
Microsoft,
Microsoft Windows,
Monitoring,
network analysis,
Networking,
packet capture,
Performance,
performance monitoring,
recovery,
reporting,
research,
Sandbox,
Security,
Sysinternals,
toolkit,
tools,
troubleshootingIf you ever need to get under the covers of running Windows processes for investigating why a system is running slow, then the Sysinternals toolkit has an updated tool that will help you. Per the website:
Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows...
September 30, 2008 1:34 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
awareness,
Data security,
DataManagement,
education,
forensics,
honeypot,
howto,
LAN,
malware,
Metrics,
Monitoring,
network analysis,
Network TAPs,
Networking,
packet capture,
Performance,
performance monitoring,
reporting,
research,
risk,
Security,
SSL,
toolkit,
tools,
troubleshooting,
WAN,
wiresharkMaybe you already know Laura Chappell (The Viral Bitgirl), if not then this is your chance to meet her and gain loads of knowledge in 2 days.
On November 4-5, 2008 - Las Colinas, TX...
September 19, 2008 12:53 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
antivirus,
awareness,
botnet,
Browsers,
Data security,
design,
Firefox,
forensics,
homeland security,
honeypot,
malware,
man-in-the-middle,
Microsoft,
Microsoft Windows,
Monitoring,
Networking,
Policy,
reporting,
research,
risk,
Security,
tools,
troubleshooting,
vulnerability,
web,
website,
WWWPromisec has released an online encyclopedia of internal network security threats. This is available online for free. There is a lot of information to look through and decide how the risks affect your organization.
Take...
September 8, 2008 4:49 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
awareness,
data loss,
Data security,
Database,
DataManagement,
Development,
internet,
malware,
Metrics,
Monitoring,
Policy,
research,
risk,
Security,
tools,
vulnerability,
web,
website,
WWW
