As many of you may know, the MSI team has been hard at work the last several months finishing the beta of our new compromised workstation detection product, HoneyPoint Wasp. It is a fully integrated component of HoneyPoint Security Server, capable of executing distributed detection and threat monitoring on Windows workstations across enterprises. The initial [...]
My friend Eric has put up some excellent statistics and metrics on PHP RFI attacks against his honeynet. This is some excellent data. If you have read other stuff we have pointed to from Eric, then you know what to expect. But, if you are interested in a real world look at trends and metrics [...]
What do passwords dinosaurs and 8 track tapes all have in common? Pretty soon they will all be in the same category: things of the past! It’s not just a matter of people using short, simple, “stupid” passwords any more. With advances in easily available and cheap computing power such as advanced graphics processors and [...]
We caught up with Rob Anderson, Senior Product Manager with PAETEC, who gives us some great thoughts about the future of information security. Powered by Podbean.com
Well, the much anticipated 2010 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report is out, and once again it is an eye-opener! Let me say what a boon these reports are to the infosec community! Verizon and their team are to be praised and congratulated for all their hard work. These reports really help us keep current so [...]
Input validation is the single best defense against injection and XSS vulnerabilities. Done right, proper input validation techniques can make web-applications invulnerable to such attacks. Done incorrectly, they end up bringing little more than a false sense of security. The bad news is that input validation is difficult. “White listing,” or identifying all possible strings [...]
A good security training and awareness program is one of, if not the most important part of any effective information security program. After all, people are the ones that cause security problems in the first place and, ultimately, people are the ones that have to deal with them. Not to mention the fact that people [...]
One of MSI’s Twitter friends, Eric Romang, recently wrote a deep dive about PHP RFI attacks that used the fileave.com service. The write-up was based on a large set of honeypot data that dates back several years! The data is interesting and compelling and goes a long way to show value derived from the use [...]
Lucid Puppy Linux 5.0 was released back in May of 2010, but as one of my favorite distros, I have been playing with it heavily since then. I have been so impressed with the new version that I wanted to take a moment and write a quick review of this release. You can find the [...]
Right now, most organizations are fighting a losing battle against initial stage compromises. Malware, bots and client side attacks are eating many security programs alive. The security team is having a nearly impossible time keeping up with the onslaught and end-user systems are falling left and right in many organizations. Worse, security teams that are [...]