24th May 2012

Check Point Launches ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus and Firewall 2013

Once upon a time, ZoneAlarm was the best personal firewall available. It was free, stable and excellent. I seem to remember using it from 2002-2003 or so – then Zonealarm was acquired by CheckPoint and the product was lost to the retail market. CheckPoint moved the product to corporate desktops and was lost to the [...]

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Deleting Social Media Accounts. Running Scared.

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I’m deleting social media accounts with a sense of fear. Who wants to share _everything_ ? I did, until I realised how dangerous Network Theory is for exposing information about you. And everyone you know.

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Security Humour: “Packets Don’t Lie; Bob Loves Alice”

Who said people in security don’t have a sense of humour ? My crypto presentation that I teach in my InfoSec classed boiled down to a 4 minute original music video with labs. Even if you don’t like the music, if you do the labs and understand what is happening, it should help anyone pass [...]

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Why Do Hackers Want Facebook Data, Part I of II – Imperva Data Security Blog

Everyone thinks that Facebook doesn’t know much about you. But a 1200 page PDF file of personal data seems excessive. And this article explains why it’s bad for your social health if entities can get at that data (usually via Facebook apps). I’m worried, you should be too. Also, Security and Networking  Professional should not [...]

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From the “Why Use a VPN?” Department. Microsoft RDP Flaw Announced.

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Microsoft announces zero-day exploitable RDP flaw that gets full compromise of server. Expects worm to be available within thirty days. I get to gloat and say “I told you so” to all Microsoft admins everywhere.

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Cisco ASA – New Models Ahoy

Reading the release notes for ASA 8.6.1 today and noticed this about new models of Cisco ASA Firewalls.

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Comment: Juniper Acquiring Mykonos Software

Couple of days back, Juniper announced acquisition of Mykonos Software. After reviewing the web site I find that I’m interested in this acquisition as signal of change.

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Why Firewalls Don’t Have Telnet or SSH Clients

I found this on Cyber Corner blog:

Another missing ASA-feature: telnet and ssh client: “ Every single decent Cisco-device on earth has the ability to make an CLI-user jump to another device with telnet or ssh. Except the ASA. I really wish that this feature could be added. Right now I am troubleshooting a firewall and from where I am right now the only way in is to SSH to the ASA. I can do whatever I want inside the firewall from my SSH-window, but I need to access a router inside of that firewall, and if this feature wasn´t missing i could simply run ‘ssh ip-address’ to jump to the switch´s CLI.

Am I the last CLI-.guy on this planet? Please, Cisco? 

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Internets of Interest:21 Apr 11

Collection of useful, relevant or inane places on the the Internets for 21 Apr 11:

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Outburst: Cisco Catalyst 6500 ASA Services Module

The Cisco C6500 ASA Service Module finally announced. It’s been a long wait, here are my review notes for what little information we have on the product.

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