Archive for January, 2007

Hardware Based Firewall / Spam / Web Filters

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

I’m looking for good hardware based security appliance. So far I’ve talked to the guys at Astaro and their products look pretty nice. I just need to make sure that I’ve seen all the options.
IronPort
Barracuda
And then all of these
Anyone have any favorites?

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Acrobat Reader Vulnerability

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

I don’t usually post on security issues, but this frightening enough to warrent as much attention as it can get.
Details on Stefan Esser’s blog.
What this means is that ANY site which hosts a PDF is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting attack. So, follow Stefan’s instructions and disable the pdf plugin.

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Project X Rocks

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

Now I can’t tell you what Project X is, because the NDA that you have to sign before being part of the initial wave of Project X beta testers includes a clause that says that you can’t disclose that the beta testing program exists.
However, it is awesome! Incredibly disruptive… blows huge holes in my youTube […]

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Yet another Blog Year-End Review: 2006

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007

In the footsteps of a couple good friends I’ve decided to make the first blog entry of the new year yet another year in review round-up for the year 2006.
It’s hard to believe that we’re already done with 2006, this one went by fast. A lot happened, and due to the overflow of work, I […]

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