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Last Updated on 23 Oct. 2015, Total: 168 Blog Posts

  1. 10 tips for cyber security

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 24 May 2013
    • Section: General

    The UK Federation for Small Businesses (FSB) published a report about cyber security best practices focusing on small and micro businesses... Read More

  2. Call for papers about Botnets

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 22 May 2013
    • Section: General

    Botconf’13 – Call for papers... Read More

  3. Skype is reading everything you write

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 17 May 2013
    • Section: General

    According to the German security firm Heise Security, Microsoft monitors users’ instant messages and SMSs on Skype... Read More

  4. Microsoft Security Updates for May 2013

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 16 May 2013
    • Section: General

    May’s Patch Tuesday from Microsoft contain two critical security updates linked to vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer... Read More

  5. ITIL framework online resource

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 14 May 2013
    • Section: General

    The service desk is a single point of contact (SPOC) for end users who need assistance/help... Read More

  6. The world’s largest library

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 13 May 2013
    • Section: General

    ‘The Internet has often been called the world’s largest library with all the books on the floor’... Read More

  7. SSID Sniffer tool

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 10 May 2013
    • Section: General

    A tool called iSniff GPS is able to capture packets broadcasted by iPhones, iPads and other mobile devices as they connect to Wi-Fi networks and then queries the retrieved network names on wigle.net to determine possible locations... Read More

  8. Security Logging in an Enterprise

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 7 May 2013
    • Section: General

    The logging diverging requirements, along with resource contention, make it worthwhile to consider a separate high-integrity data store for sole use of Computer Incident Response Teams... Read More

  9. Malware traffic patterns

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 3 May 2013
    • Section: General

    A spreadsheet with GET and POST requests for different malware families with information from open sources... Read More

  10. DDoS attack visualization

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 30 April 2013
    • Section: General

    VideoLAN developer Ludovic Fauvet turned a recent DDoS attack on VideoLAN's server into a Logstalgia video that shows an amazing, one-sided fight between thousands of requests, with the web server desperately trying to keep them all at bay... Read More

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