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Hop Hacking Hedy
Shmoo Con First of all, I have to say that my talk at ShmooCon 2011 was a great experience. Here is a view from my stand point. Q and Atlas did a great job. You can experience our talk yourself by...
View ArticleIt Will Never Be Too Expensive
Drop The Refrain The refrain “make it too expensive for the attackers” needs to be retired from the security professional’s vocabulary. It is not going to happen. Making it “too expensive” is not...
View ArticleContact With The Enemy
There are several reasons that I am drawn to IT security and incident response. The discovery of what occurred. Protecting a business and its employees from people doing them harm. The need for a...
View ArticleOn Mentoring in IT Security
Mentoring can be a powerful learning tool for learning specific topics. I have been thinking about mentoring a little bit because I have often found myself thinking that a mentor would be beneficial to...
View ArticleIncident Response Preparation using System Walk-throughs
When I started working for IBM’s Emergency Response Team I was a little intimidated about walking into a client’s environment and quickly providing incident response leadership. Luckily I was trained...
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The ShmooCon Talk that Faded Silently into the Night
It is more than obvious now that my ShmooCon talk, Looking into the Eye of the Meter, was canceled. Kelly Jackson Higgins in her Dark Reading article Researchers Postpone Release Of Free Smart Meter...
View ArticleWhy Security Professionals Push Testing and Research
Once again I find myself pointing to tweets by Richard Bejtlich. This time it was actually a retweet of Hogfly who runs the Forensic Incident Response blog. Hogfly recently pointed out an article in...
View ArticleGathering Hard Drive Serial Number and Information
When acquiring data I am always worried about writing down a hard drive’s part number and serial number incorrectly. Sometimes the print is so small that an “8″ will look like a “B” or maybe the...
View ArticleKnife Handling Rules
My eight year old son has been asking to carry a knife. I have been wondering about knife safety and what it will take for me to let him carry a knife around. When I think about it the knife has been a...
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Hard Drive Acquisition Information Using faidds
I mentioned in Gathering Hard Drive Serial Number and Information that I wanted a method to automatically document a hard drive’s information in Linux. I did come across a solution called Automated...
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