November 19, 2009 1:59 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
forensics,
investigation,
playwright,
robots,
Shakespeare,
technologyIn that realm of odd and unusual news stories, a recent story on Wired tells about a Texas A&M production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream using robot flying fairies alongside the rest of...
November 5, 2009 4:50 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
apache,
authentication,
certificates,
IIS,
information security,
risk,
risk management,
SSL,
tls,
vulnerability,
web servicesAs Michael Morisy of ITKE recently posted, New SSL security hole allows man-in-the-middle attacks, a new SSL...
October 15, 2009 6:44 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
analysis,
education,
ethereal,
howto,
IT education,
Laura Chappell,
Metrics,
Monitoring,
network analysis,
Networking,
packet analysis,
packet capture,
performance monitoring,
protocol analysis,
reporting,
tcp/ip,
tools,
trace files,
training,
troubleshooting,
wiresharkLaura Chappel, the BitGirl, is at it again with another in her series of Wireshark Jumpstart webinars. The next one is called
October 15, 2009 12:51 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
antispam,
antivirus,
Cloud Services,
corrective actions,
Google,
incident report,
root cause analysis,
saas,
service level,
service outageI recently posted about Google’s Postini - cloud email security service - delivery issues. This is a follow-on post about the incident root cause...
October 13, 2009 7:59 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
antispam,
antivirus,
Cloud Services,
Google,
saas,
service level,
service outageSince very early today, US Eastern Daylight Time, Google's Postini services have been experiencing some service issues. It is unknown as of this writing as to the cause or full scope of the issue. However, when logging into the Postini support portal, an administrator is given the following status...
October 7, 2009 6:38 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
bot,
botnet,
career,
information security,
information technology,
infosec,
IT,
network analysis,
professional,
Security,
service level,
support,
trojanIn America, October is the time when haunting, evil spirits and curses come to mind. Earlier today I posted a blog entry titled Can IT education bring an end to the...
September 30, 2009 1:36 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
case study,
frame relay,
industry award,
information security,
ipsec,
mpls,
network management,
remote access,
Security,
security management,
SSL,
ssl vpn,
vpn,
WANHave you ever wondered if vendor case studies are actually solutions to real life issues or if they are stories about compensated organizations using a particular vendor solution? Well, I am here to tell you that I know of at least one case study that is about an organization addressing real-life...
September 16, 2009 6:41 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
browser security,
drive-by attack,
Google,
information security,
malicious software,
malware,
search results,
software,
software securityWell, that may not be news to you. However, there is a recent trend in malware propagation that uses Google as the portal to deliver payloads to visitors. Unsuspecting users go to Google and search for topics such as Patrick Swayze's death or the controversy about Serena Williams cursing at the...
September 16, 2009 6:31 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
ad revenue,
browser security,
computer network,
hardware,
information security,
information security management,
licensing,
malicious software,
malware,
network access,
PC,
permit,
Security,
social engineering,
software,
user educationYesterday Fierce CIO reported that New York Times falls victim to rogue ad. This is a trend that seems to be happening more frequently. Rogue...