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Safeguard Against Random Password Hacks

By On February 5, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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A great tool I ran across to protect your server from random password attacks which I have been receiving recently from China.

Fail2ban scans log files and bans IP addresses that make repeated, unsuccessful attempts to access the server and then it updates the IPtables [...]

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Locking Down The Blackberry Network

By On January 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Early last year India threatened to discontinue Blackberry service if Research In Motion (RIM), the company behind the Blackberry did not allow the Indian Government to monitor the Blackberry network traffic raising serious security concerns. Here are a few articles from PCWorld, InfoWorld, and CNet.

Now president-elect Barack [...]

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Security Conferences

By On December 17, 2008 · Leave a Comment

It is my intention next year to attend at least a couple of security conferences if not more.

Below is a list of the most established and ones I found attractive.

CSI

The largest information security conference on the East Coast is also the only security conference expressly assembling experts to [...]

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Its the FMI’s Turn at Being Hacked

By On November 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Within weeks of the World Bank’s story breaking about its computer systems being breached by hackers, Fox News has reported here that Cyber-Hackers have broken into the IMF computer system.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization that oversees the global financial system by following the [...]

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