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Getaway day: How to secure your laptop for holiday travel
It's getaway day and as we prepare to hit the road, trudge through airport security and snag that car rental, spare a thought for the valuable data that travels with you on that trusty old...
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Moving on
I travel a lot. It has been almost ten years since I had a job that was based in the same place I live. Whenever I get a call from friends and family the first question I get is "where are you?"...
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Judge releases Wikileaks
All it took was a little representation. That is one trouble with the US legal system. You have to show up to defend yourself. The guys at Wikileaks.org were effecitvely put out of business by...
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Oil field data loss just common theft
Sighs of relief can be heard coming from Brazil this week as police arrested four men (port security guards) responsible for heisting some computers that had lots of data from the newly discovered...
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Declan on Wikileaks
The news today is that several free speech advocates are stepping into the fray over Wikileaks. See Declan McCullagh's coverage. I love his syllogism: [Shutting down Wikileaks is] like Apple not...
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Only 8,700 insecure ftp servers?
According to ComputerWorld coverage Finjan is publicizing a source in Hong Kong they have discovered that offers to sell access to hacked ftp servers. The idea is that a malware purveyor or...
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You can keep on asking...
But you have to ask the right questions. Two senators have sent a letter to 24 US agencies asking them to report on their progress in data protection. This article at Federal Computer Week...
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Pakistan removed from the Internet
4:30 PM Eastern (US). The telecom company that carries most of Pakistan's traffic, PCCW, has found it necessary to shut Pakistan off from the Internet while they filter out the malicious routes...
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Pakistan declares war on YouTube
What could at first have been just one of those days on the Internet where some newbie engineer accidentally announces a spurious route and takes out a segment of the network has turned into an...
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Pakistan takes out YouTube
Like I said in a recent post, the Internet is a series of tubes. Sometimes that helps route around malicious legislation and regulators, sometimes it causes big problems. Like today at 2 PM...
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Get a clue Morocco
Do you ever get the feeling that the people around you are missing out on a major shift in the way the world works? Try explaining lolcats to your grandfather for instance. I feel sorry for the...
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TippingPoint tips balance in withdrawal of CFIUS application
I met Mike Rothman last night for drinks. He was on a once in a lifetime pass through Southfield, Michigan. I found myself acting like many people do in the presence of a knowledgeable industry...
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Bullseye! US shoots down spy satellite!
Good job. According to Reuters, the US has succeeded in shooting down its errant spy satellite. Update:Â Yes, there is video.
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Great source on cyber espionage
I am taking a couple of days to explore the slopes at Boyne Mountain. For those of you who regularly ski the Alps and Rockies I have one thing to say. 450 foot (150m) vertical! This is a great...
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California court order effectively erases Wikileaks
In the rapidly escalating story of Wikileaks.org, (here) a California court has ordered the domain registrar, Dynadot, to erase all DNS entries for the domain, effectively erasing a website that...
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Does IT matter?
As someone who has been accused of publicity seeking through grand pronouncements I can understand the motivation behind Nicholas Carr's 2003 article in Harvard Business Review: "IT Doesn't...
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Congrats to Arcsight
Hard to believe that a SIM (Security Information Management) company has made it "out". Arcsight went public yesterday at $9/share. Pure play security company IPO's are few and far between.  ...
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US to shoot down spy satellite
This news just in. The Bush administration has decided to attempt to shoot down the failed spy satellite that was due to enter the earth's atmosphere sometime in coming weeks. I can see why they...
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Ben Edelman targets C-NetMedia
Ben Edelman has created a nice Valentine's day post. I am sure the folks behind C-NetMedia are swooning over it even now. Ben eviscerates these guys. First he tracks all of the deceptive...
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404 and DNS re-directs are evil
Practically one of my first blog postings ever I published(Black and white and gray all over) a continuum of good and evil. I was attempting to investigate the shades of gray in moral behavior...
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