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Outsourcing, and rebranding, (national) security 26 Aug 2013 | 10:40 pm
I was thinking about the recent trend, in the US, for “outsourcing” and “privatization” of security functions, in order to reduce (government) costs. For example, we know, from the Snowden debacle, t...
Hardening guide for Postfix 2.x 24 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
Make sure the Postfix is running with non-root account: ps aux | grep postfix | grep -v '^root' Change permissions and ownership on the destinations below: chmod 755 /etc/postfix chmod 644 /etc/post...
Hardening guide for BIND9 (Debian platform) 24 Aug 2013 | 10:56 am
Make sure the Bind is running with non-root account: ps aux | grep bind | grep -v '^root' Change permissions and ownership on the destinations below: chown -R root:bind /etc/bind chown root:bind /et...
Has your email been “hacked?” 8 Aug 2013 | 12:27 am
I got two suspicious messages today. They were identical, and supposedly “From” two members of my extended family, and to my most often used account, rather than the one I use as a spam trap. I’ve h...
Click on everything? 7 Aug 2013 | 11:30 pm
You clicked on that link, didn’t you? I’m writing a posting about malicious links in postings and email, and you click on a link in my posting. How silly is that? (No, it wouldn’t have been dangero...
The Biggest Gap in Information Security is…? 7 Aug 2013 | 11:19 pm
As a person who’s committed to helping raise awareness in the security community as a whole, I’ve often found myself asking this question. While there are several issues that I think contribute to the...
(Photo) Copyist’s error? 7 Aug 2013 | 03:14 am
Students of the classics and ancient documents are used to checking for copyist errors, but a photocopier? And, of course, you can’t trust the machine to check the copy against the original, since it...
Thoughts at the library drop slot 6 Aug 2013 | 03:11 am
A couple of days ago, I happened to walk over to the library in order to return some items. When I got there, as all too often is the case, a parent was allowing two of his children to put their retu...
REVIEW: “Intelligent Internal Control and Risk Management”, Matthew Leitch 24 Jul 2013 | 02:29 am
BKIICARM.RVW 20121210 “Intelligent Internal Control and Risk Management”, Matthew Leitch, 2008, 978-0-566-08799-8, U$144.95 %A Matthew Leitch %C Gower House, Croft Rd, Aldershot, Hampshire, G...
A virus too big to fail? 24 Jul 2013 | 02:23 am
Once upon a time, many years ago, a school refused to take my advice (mediated through my brother) as to what to do about a very simple computer virus infection. The infection in question was Stoned,...
