Because it is open outbound from the firewall, many applications send their traffic across port 80 to avoid firewall issues. This has led to port 80 being called the Firewall Traversal Exploit. Port 443 then is the Secure Firewall Traversal Exploit...
Since it’s not obvious, the blog title is an allusion to Jules’ big speech in Pulp Fiction. I read a couple interesting blog entries on Friday. John Pescatore asks “Are Security Professionals Like Stephen Slater.” In another blog, Foilball asks us to...
Month of July This month the world saw the Microsoft Windows LNK shortcut flaw bring a smile to black hat hackers running Stuxnet, Chymine, Vobfus, Sality and Zeus, as they quickly updated their malware to leverage the vulnerability. In addition, we'll...
I deployed Adobe Flash 10.1 through System Center UpdatesPublisher (SCUP). Its kind of sad how excited this makes me. SCUP is a framework that allows you to integrate third-party update deployment into your SCCM/WSUS server. Companies can provide a CAB file...
Look at me, making Ralph Nader references whether they work or not. Back in July, the US Copyright office ruled it is legal to jailbreak your iPhone in order to install non-appstore apps or even to unlock the phone to use...
As I mentioned back in July we started an evaluation of Good on the iPhone. We used Good in the bad old days of RIM’s patent fight. Some executives stated they wanted a quick out plan in case RIM was forced...
Earlier this week Forrester released a paper on iPhone and Enterprise use. That article was summarizedby Larry Dignan on ZdNet. As a side note, I started to write on this earlier but wasn’t sure that I could legitimately quote from the...
Like a lot of companies we are trying to go to Windows 7 sooner rather than later. We skipped Vista and XP is starting to seem a bit old. One of the things holding us back is GuardianEdge’s Full Disk Encryption...
My new computer from Puget Custom Computers arrived via FedEx on Wednesday. I am very happy with my computer and with the service provided by Puget. From my first visit to their website to the pictures they sent of my computer prior...