Well, my good friend and blogging compatriot Martin McKeay has finally made it to the big time by actually having a press release issued about his move to StillSecure. I can honestly say that I have never known someone personally that had his own press release. Wow. I can count the Great McKeay as a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s another Taekwondo toe picture for you. I got this injury tonight. I think I got it while I was sparring. I’ll keep you posted on the progress of the bruise (’cause I am sure you want to know, right?) Still having fun, though. I got to run exercises today (all the stretches and pushups […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is what kills me. You have everyone saying that posting fights and generally screwed up stuff on MySpace and YouTube is bad (I agree), but you have a major media source (well, MSNBC USED to be a major media source) posting the most graphic parts of a video of a girl getting pummelled for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Many of you know I am from Houston. And it has recently made even national news that my governor, Mr. Rick Perry, mandated that the state add the controversial HPV vaccine as a mandantory vaccine for girls in the state of Texas. He has been getting a lot of heat over this because he kinda went […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I found out a couple of days ago that I was accepted as a speaker for the TRISC 2007 show in Austin (May 15-17). I will be speaking about using security blogs as a important resource for security research. I am excited about doing this since it is really only my second official speaking gig, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I got this from Bruce Schneier’s site. Looks like the guys at Symantec have developed a way to change the DNS settings on your home broadband router’s DHCP scope by drawing you into a malicious website with some bad Java code. So when your PC gets its IP address from your broadband router, it directs your home […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE do not truncate your post in your RSS feed. I use Blogbridge so I can pull down my feeds and read them when I am running around and don’t have Internet access. When I get to your blog and I see something interesting, if the post is cut off in the feed, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Anyone heard of any action against these medical companies under HIPAA regulation? Neither have I. This is the problem with government trying to fix a problem. While I agree with the basic attempt HIPAA is making at securing personal medical data, it just makes no sense to have anyone try to comply when nothing happens […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Steve Hunt at Security Dreamer recently posted a quick test for knowing if your network is vulnerable. The test: well, there is no test. You can take for granted that your network is vulnerable. Steve’s point? You don’t need a security consultant to perform a $30,000 security assessment to tell you that. I see Steve’s […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As many of you know from my toe post a while back, I am taking Taekwondo. Well, I just tested for my yellow belt. I passed, so now I am officially a yellow belt (yea, it is a VERY low belt). AND, I tied for best test out of about 20 people testing for yellow […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s a good point in this article over at Roger’s Information Security Blog. DELETE YOUR WIRELESS PROFILES!! Anytime I go out of town and use a hotel’s wireless, I make sure I delete the profile when I come home. Vet
OK, I have some braggin’ to do, but it is not about me. It is about my lovely bride of 10 years. April (that’s my wife) has been decorating cakes for a couple of years now. She does wedding cakes, birthday cakes, etc. for friends and family. She has a natural talent for it, and people […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Since Alan and Mitchell have not blogged about this (Alan quickly mentioned it), I have to write about it. This was by far one of the funniest and weirdest things that has happened to me in the last few years (since I don’t get out like I used to, this is not saying much – […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I think I am going to try this next time I fly. All in all, the entire process took just over 10 minutes and got me through security significantly faster than going through the regular process. Vet
WARNING: This may be a bit of a ramble. I am a member of a Yahoo email discussion group for security professionals. One of the comments made today was about a man taking his son to an IT conference to see if he could get his son to “swear off IT as a career.” Though […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Kurt made too much sense about making my email address accessible, so I decided to go out and search for a web form plugin for WordPress. Now you can contact me using this form at my Contact Me page. A link is also available on the upper right corner of my site in the “Internal […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
…because I didn’t have an email address on my blog. Well, I finally posted it. It’s on my “About” page. So there. While you’re there, you can gaze on my handsome face as well. Vet
As I have explained, I didn’t get to go the full week at RSA. And while I was there, I was doing interviews or just generally screwing around, so I missed all of the keynotes. When I heard at the conference that Larry Ellison from Oracle didn’t show, I about blew beer out my nose. Typical […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
[Updated post - I added quite a bit] I am about to leave the RSA conference. I am a little disappointed that I was not here all week. The last two years I arrived Monday and left Friday and got to go to all the sessions I could make it to. But that was when […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m heading out to RSA at San Francisco for a couple of days to do some interviewing and some general perusing. However, the real reason I am going is the security blogger gathering. I am really looking forward to meeting so many people that I have been conversing with for the last year via my […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Looks like a company responsible for editing in-flight movies accidentally edited out “God” from the movie The Queen. I know this story isn’t really security related, but I thought it was interesting because I experienced this when flying to Accuvant’s sales kick-off a couple of weeks ago in Colorado. I kept wondering if I was […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The VA is missing a hard drive with 48,000 veterans’ records on it. 20,000 of them were NOT encrypted. Huh? Vet
I picked up on this story from a post at the nCircle blog. Looks like Skype is trying to make themselves palatable to security admins by hooking up with security companies. The first one they are partnering with is FaceTime Communications, who produce software and appliances that help businesses monitor and secure use of instant […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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