Security

Privacy in the age of the social media « The Puchi Herald

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 05/23/2011 Editorials

Image via CrunchBasePrivacy in the age of the social media « The Puchi Herald: “ Do you know Mr. George Bronk? He’s a “smart” guy, using a little social engineering and a good dose of smartass brain he hacked a lot of women’s account Facebook and email, checking for hot sexy pics of the owners.” Related articles Privacy Hacking Worse Than PR Flacking (yro.slashdot.org) JOURNALIST ARRESTED OVER FACEBOOK PRIVACY REPORT (Media; Social Media) (thepulsemagazine.onsugar.com) Lawyer: Facebook abuser doesn’t deserve prison (sfgate.com) Facebook’s Hack-A-Months Cause Disruption, Innovation (fastcompany.com) Microsoft states that 1 in 14 downloads is malicious (theinformativereport.com) 3 Ways to…

TCP Split Handshake Issue

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 04/14/2011 Editorials

Image via WikipediaTCP Split Handshake Issue those days I’ve read on the news a lot of noise about an NSS test that were reporting a TCP handshake security hole (TCP Split Handshake Issue) in several commercial firewalls. The question is interesting from several points of view: are IPS and firewall really secure? is a vulnerability really a security issue? how does this vulnerability affect me? http://portadiferro.blogspot.com/2011/04/tcp-split-handshake-issue.html Related articles Other Considerations On TCP Split Handshake (paulsparrows.wordpress.com) TCP Split Handshake: Why Cisco ASA is not susceptible (paulsparrows.wordpress.com) TCP Split Handshake: The (Never)ending Story… (paulsparrows.wordpress.com) TCP Split Handshake Attack Explained (paulsparrows.wordpress.com) Hacker ‘handshake’…

Security Blogger Missing

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 01/18/2011 News From The World

Security Blogger Missing eSecurity Planet By eSecurityPlanet Staff ZDNet’s Ryan Naraine reports that security blogger and malware researcher Dancho Danchev has been missing since August of 2010. … Related articles Have you seen Dancho Danchev? (sunbeltblog.blogspot.com) ZDNet: We need help with the strange disappearance of Dancho Danchev (boxofmeat.net) Dancho Danchev – Is He Really A Victim Of Foul Play? (lockergnome.com) The Strange Disappearance of Dancho Danchev (yro.slashdot.org) Danchev Missing In Bulgaria, Possibly Harmed (infosecurity.us) We need help with the disappearance of Security Researcher Dancho Danchev (zdnet.com) Dancho Danchev Missing (warintel.blogspot.com) We need help with the strange disappearance of Dancho Danchev…

Can Android be an enterprise mobile OS without vpn support?

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 12/21/2010 News From The World

Image via Wikipedia and here we are Android is not only the winning mobile OS in terms of vulnerability, but in order to make things clear it is also not provided with a decent vpnipsec solution. nNw would be useful to add, at least, a vpn support for cisco anyconnect and the major vpn vendors in the market, but till now it seems Google is not interested in making its OS a real enterprise OS. Would you put your info on a smart device that not support ssl or ipsec vpn for business transactions? this sound like careless computing. remember…

Security in a Virtual World

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 08/09/2009 Editorials

Virtualization of the data center is provoking fundamental questions about the proper place for network security services. Will they simply disappear into the One True Cloud, dutifully following applications as they vMotion about the computing ether? Will they remain as a set of modular appliances physically separate from the server computing blob? Should everything be virtualized because it can be? By Throop Wilder Thu, June 04, 2009 — Network World — Virtualization of the data center is provoking fundamental questions about the proper place for network security services. Will they simply disappear into the One True Cloud, dutifully following applications…

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