Category: Protect
Time to bring back the network worm?
Well, Microsoft has patched those pesky DNS vulnerabilities affecting Windows. When the flaws were first revealed, and exploit code began circulating through the darker corners of the Internet, a few of us got excited. You see, it's been a while since we… more »
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IPv6 routing flaws -- are our standards screwed?
By now, most security geeks have read up on the IPv6 flaws that became the biggest show in town at the CanSecWest conference in Canada recently.
Basically, some idiot at the IETF managed to cut and paste some very silly ideas used in IPv4 into IPv6.… more »
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Voice biometrics -- a clear ROI case in IT! How novel!
I recently interviewed Australian Health Management's operations manager, Melinda Charlesworth, for my podcast. She was discussing the company's deployment of a voice biometric system.
Instead of asking callers those annoying questions (date of birth,… more »
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Unbreakable? Unbelievable.
It's hard to find current marketing material that makes reference to Oracle's ill-fated "Unbreakable" campaign.
Launched in November 2001 -- when everyone was shitting bricks; remember what happened two months prior -- the Unbreakable marketing campai… more »
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The new battleground?
So we've heard a lot of talk about "cyber warfare" and "cyber terrorism". Bullshit, right?
Well, I used to think so. Then I interviewed Richard A. Clarke.
Some of you may have seen this piece, which ran in the Sydney Morning Herald and Age newspape… more »
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Patrick Gray is an IT security expert, so we can't show you his face for your own protection. Each week he delves into technology's dark underbelly to see what lurks in the shadows.
