Snort was one of the first security tools I ever used.

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I just noticed that my 9th edition of Traffic Talk , titled Testing Snort with Metasploit , was posted. From the article: Security and networking service providers are often asked whether their solutions are working as expected. Two years ago, I wrote How to test Snort , which concentrated on reasons for testing and ways to avoid doing poor testing....
While I’m sure Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer at F-Secure , is getting as tired as hearing the term APT* as the rest of us are, he had some insight into what’s really happening with this threat and the fact that it’s not something new, it’s just the acknowledgment that it’s happening that’s new.
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Jan Hichert, CEO of Astaro Internet Security , and I met in one of the quieter hallways of the 2010 RSA Convention.
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It’s hard doing interviews on the showroom floor at RSAC.
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The Register has interesting article on 50 people that were arrested in Romania for using smart phone spying tools to spy on their spouses, competitors, and other people who fell victim for one or another motivation. We have covered there spying tools already in 2006 , back then the first versions of these tools were classified as trojans, later variants...
I caught up with Pedro Bustamante, Senior Research Analyst from Panda Security , for a brief interview about what his company is doing in 2010.
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One of the things I don’t believe we see enough of in the security field is independent testing.
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Interesting: In the throes of intense fear, we suddenly find ourselves operating in a different and unexpected way. The psychological tools that we normally use to navigate the worldreasoning and planning before we actget progressively shut down. In the grip of the brain’s subconscious fear centers, we behave in ways that to our rational mind...
Federal Bureau of Investigation officials in New York are increasingly employing tools and techniques used to hunt terrorists to take aim at a different kind of criminal: white-collar con artists and inside traders. At a time when the public has grown suspicious of Wall Street and lost confidence in the government’s ability to police it, investigators...
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