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Prevent your institution from being an unwitting partner in DDoS attacks

Posted by gapanalysis on Friday May 10, 2013 @08:17AM
from the ren-isac.net dept.

http://www.ren-isac.net/alerts/dns_amp_ddos_tech_201305.html

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Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform

Posted by gapanalysis on Friday May 10, 2013 @08:16AM
from the wired.com dept.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/05/immigration-reform-dossiers/

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Are Party Affiliation and Educational Social Impact Related?

Posted by gapanalysis on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @12:39PM
from the securityskeptic.typepad.com dept.

http://securityskeptic.typepad.com/the-security-skeptic/2013/05/are-party-affiliation-and-educational-social-impact-related.html

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How to report a DDoS Attack

Posted by gapanalysis on Thursday April 25, 2013 @12:36PM
from the blog.icann.org dept.

http://blog.icann.org/2013/04/how-to-report-a-ddos-attack/

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Mac Users: Prevent Presentation Hijacking, Disable or Pair Your Remote Control

Posted by gapanalysis on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @11:08AM
from the securityskeptic.typepad.com dept.

http://securityskeptic.typepad.com/the-security-skeptic/2013/04/mac-users-prevent-presentation-hijacking-disable-or-pair-your-remote-control.html

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How to use the 2013 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report

Posted by gapanalysis on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @11:06AM
from the securosis.com dept.

https://securosis.com/blog/how-to-use-the-2013-verizon-data-breach-investigations-report

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Measure twice, cut once: sound advice for infosec, too

Posted by gapanalysis on Thursday April 11, 2013 @08:03AM
from the securityskeptic.typepad.com dept.

http://securityskeptic.typepad.com/the-security-skeptic/2013/04/measure-twice-cut-once-sound-advice-for-infosec-too.html

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Protecting the world from Your network

Posted by gapanalysis on Thursday April 04, 2013 @12:56PM
from the securityskeptic.typepad.com dept.

http://securityskeptic.typepad.com/the-security-skeptic/2013/04/protecting-the-world-from-your-network.html

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Ad Industry Attacks Against Mozilla Reveal Poor Choice of Campaign Role Models

Posted by gapanalysis on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @11:34AM
from the securityskeptic.typepad.com dept.

http://securityskeptic.typepad.com/the-security-skeptic/2013/03/ad-industry-attacks-against-mozilla-poor-choice-of-campaign-role-models-.html

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A visual aid for raising social engineering awareness

Posted by gapanalysis on Friday March 08, 2013 @08:38AM
from the securityskeptic.typepad.com dept.

http://securityskeptic.typepad.com/the-security-skeptic/2013/03/visual-aid-for-raising-social-engineering-awareness.html

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Securing the Kids: because Kids are Human OSs too

Posted by gapanalysis on Monday March 04, 2013 @10:27AM
from the securityskeptic.typepad.com dept.

http://securityskeptic.typepad.com/the-security-skeptic/2013/03/securing-the-kids-because-kids-are-human-oss-too.html

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Re:Don’t Touch That Dial Low-Power Radio Is About to Make FM Hot Again on Thursday February 28, 2013 @07:52AM (#5298421)

Would be nice to have more "pure play" music stations, less talk radio and (please) more choices for commuter time slots than the banal "morning show" blather.

The New Face of IP Scanning

Posted by gapanalysis on Thursday February 28, 2013 @07:38AM
from the securityskeptic.typepad.com dept.

http://securityskeptic.typepad.com/the-security-skeptic/2013/02/the-new-face-of-ip-address-scanning.html

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Research and victim phishing reports tell same sad story

Posted by gapanalysis on Monday February 18, 2013 @02:30PM
from the securityskeptic.typepad.com dept.

http://securityskeptic.typepad.com/the-security-skeptic/2013/02/research-victim-phishing-reports-tell-same-sad-story.html

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Book Review: Internet Down - A Modern American Western

Posted by gapanalysis on Thursday February 14, 2013 @10:31AM
from the securityskeptic.typepad.com dept.

http://securityskeptic.typepad.com/the-security-skeptic/2013/02/book-review-internet-down-a-modern-american-western.html

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2012 sets new record for data breaches

Posted by gapanalysis on Thursday February 14, 2013 @07:26AM
from the riskbasedsecurity.com dept.

http://www.riskbasedsecurity.com/2013/02/2012-sets-new-record-for-reported-data-breaches/

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China is victim, threatened by overseas hackers

Posted by gapanalysis on Thursday February 07, 2013 @11:41AM
from the usa.chinadaily.com.cn dept.

http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013-02/07/content_16213475.htm

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Domain Internet Groper: Using dig to access DNS zone data

Posted by gapanalysis on Thursday February 07, 2013 @11:40AM
from the securityskeptic.typepad.com dept.

http://securityskeptic.typepad.com/the-security-skeptic/2013/02/domain-internet-groper-using-dig-to-access-dns-zone-data.html

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Domain Seizures Act II: Minimizing Collateral Harm

Posted by gapanalysis on Friday January 25, 2013 @08:21AM
from the securityskeptic.typepad.com dept.

http://securityskeptic.typepad.com/the-security-skeptic/2013/01/domain-seizures-minimizing-collateral-harm.html

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Book Review: On Internet Freedom

Posted by gapanalysis on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @09:18AM
from the securityskeptic.typepad.com dept.

http://securityskeptic.typepad.com/the-security-skeptic/2013/01/book-review-on-internet-freedom.html

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Use these WordPress plugins to help secure your site

Posted by gapanalysis on Thursday January 17, 2013 @10:55AM
from the securityskeptic.typepad.com dept.

http://securityskeptic.typepad.com/the-security-skeptic/2013/01/use-these-wordpress-plugins-to-help-secure-your-site-.html

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How to protect your Wordpress site from hackers

Posted by gapanalysis on Monday January 14, 2013 @08:45AM
from the securityskeptic.typepad.com dept.

http://securityskeptic.typepad.com/the-security-skeptic/2013/01/how-to-protect-your-wordpress-site-from-hackers.html

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Elements of an effective logging plan

Posted by gapanalysis on Friday January 04, 2013 @09:08AM
from the securityskeptic.typepad.com dept.

http://securityskeptic.typepad.com/the-security-skeptic/2013/01/-elements-of-an-effective-logging-game-plan.html

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DNS ROI: 5 reasons slow website speed kills

Posted by gapanalysis on Friday January 04, 2013 @09:07AM
from the circleid.com dept.

http://www.circleid.com/posts/20120911_dns_roi_5_reasons_slow_website_speed_kills/

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Re:Web Application Defender's Cookbook (review) on Friday January 04, 2013 @09:06AM (#5007625)

Good to see more books that talk about mitigation. Hacking books are great fun and insightful but they are often not as practical for admins.

Web Application Defender's Cookbook (review)

Posted by gapanalysis on Friday January 04, 2013 @09:04AM
from the 365.rsaconference.com dept.

http://365.rsaconference.com/blogs/securityreading/2013/01/03/web-application-defenders-cookbook-battling-hackers-and-protecting-users

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DNS Firewalls in action: RPZ versus SPAM

Posted by gapanalysis on Friday January 04, 2013 @08:36AM
from the circleid.com dept.

http://www.circleid.com/posts/20120103_dns_firewalls_in_action_rpz_vs_spam/

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50 Years of Doctor Who (Infographic)

Posted by gapanalysis on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @04:22PM
from the securityskeptic.typepad.com dept.

http://securityskeptic.typepad.com/the-security-skeptic/2012/12/50-years-of-doctor-who-.html

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The (Sad) State of Application Security

Posted by gapanalysis on Thursday December 20, 2012 @05:27PM
from the securityskeptic.typepad.com dept.

http://securityskeptic.typepad.com/the-security-skeptic/2012/12/the-sad-state-of-application-security.html

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12 Days of Phishmas (A Christmas Carol)

Posted by gapanalysis on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @09:37AM
from the securityskeptic.typepad.com dept.

http://securityskeptic.typepad.com/the-security-skeptic/2011/11/twelve-days-of-phishmas-2011.html

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