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View ArticleAcoustic Cryptoanalysis in Servers
http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic Amazing stuff, listening to servers to pull their key data!!
View ArticleListening for 4096 bit RSA keys?
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Full-4096-bit-RSA-Keys-Extracted-by-Listening-to-the-Sound-Made-by-Computers-410710.shtml Interesting and a little scary. I'm skeptical on real world application though....
View ArticleHey Spiceheads...what are your thoughts on the Intel/McAfee name change?
I'm at CES this week and they made the big announcement on Monday. Your thoughts? I'm just curious.
View ArticleUSB Lockdown - thoughts & ideas
Hey All! We've decided to investigate the possibility of locking down USB ports to stop data transfer - risk of infection \ loss of corporate data are the motivations. Has anyone had any experiences \...
View ArticleNetwork Under Attack?
Spiceworks alerted me earlier that my computer (that has domain admin credentials) was communicating with a suspicious IP address. I checked the address out and it looked like it was bad, so I...
View ArticleAm I the only one who is wary of Chrome?
I wonder sometimes... am I the only one who sees Chrome as a dangerous animal that requires great care to wrangle with rather than this wonderful entity of delight and utter delightful wonderfulness...
View Articlewhats the best way to ensure a file data is not modified
Can I rely on those MD5 checkers, will they always return the same value no matter algorithm to use? Or is there something else I can use to make sure the files are always the same. thanks in advance
View ArticleYahoo mail account hacked
Hello all; My friend's yahoo mail account was hacked,but however he has managed to get in. However we found a different email being registred under security settings which we deleted. But when we give...
View ArticleArticle in NY Times talking about upstarts & veterans in the IT Security world..
There is an interesting article in the New York Times today that includes an interview with Symantec CEO Steve Bennett. It's not a puff piece about Symantec, but rather an overview of some of the new...
View Article"Renewal Notice" Scam
I received this "Renewal Notice" from a company called National Telecompany, Inc. based out of Pasadena, California. My AP dept had received it, stamped it for coding and put in my mailbox to get my...
View ArticleOutside HIPAA consultant?
We are a small shop, over worked and under paid, like everyone else, but we are wanting to look at getting an outside HIPAA consultant company to come in and steer us in the right direction. Can...
View ArticleIs Continuous Security Monitoring Critical to Stopping Malicious Activity?
Today you are likely to have between 5 and 9 protective defenses on your network. These typically include host AV, NGFW, IPS, web and email gateways, DLP, SIEM, and web application firewalls. While...
View ArticleUser profile mysteriously created on server
Over the weekend I got a SW alert saying a "Network user DOMAIN\user.name has been created on SERVERNAME. It was on Friday afternoon at 3:51pm. I logged into the server and sure enough, there was one...
View ArticlePoint of Sale Security
I am the IT manager for a small grocery store chain. With the recent news of the Target data breach I wanted to know what I can do to make sure this doesn't happen to us. The point of sale program is...
View ArticleDemon Music
ok, so heres the situation. My user is a remote user, he has an HP Probook 6450b Win7 x64. We received a support ticket from this user complaining of music randomly playing on his computer. He said it...
View ArticleAh yes...the dramatic return of the .Zip file attachment malware
Greetings post holiday resolution keeping Spiceheads! Todays peal of wisdom comes to us courtesy of Symantec Anti-Spam analyst Eric Park He posted a blog earlier today: .Zip Attachment Spam Makes a...
View ArticleSo who is using Windows Firewall on their domain?
So I found this thread;http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/106289-who-uses-the-windows-firewall But that's almost 3 years old. That thread seemed to lean slightly toward more people using it than...
View ArticleSonicwall Report Port Scans over and over- What now?
My Sonicwall keep alerting me to port scans, I know they happen all the time but why be alerted if there isn't anything to do about it. So I ask is there anything to do about it? Example: 02/28/2012...
View ArticleDo you allow employees to use personal email accounts on network?
I know there is a fine line between being a jerk and looking out for the best interest of the company's network that you are working for. Do you normally not allow personal email accounts to be...
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