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More on Air Defense's sleazy trade show shtick and Infosec World wrap up

2008-03-12 00:01:15 by HASH0x8b72520 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Defense spoofing SSIDs to direct people to their site which I wrote about yesterday. Several people wrote to me privately and confirmed that indeed this is something that the Air Defense people have been doing for several years evidently at trade shows. They also agreed that while showing what their product can do, it is a pretty sleazy way...
 
 
 
 
 
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More on Air Defense's sleazy trade show shtick and Infosec World wrap up

2008-03-12 01:01:15 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Defense spoofing SSIDs to direct people to their site which I wrote about yesterday. Several people wrote to me privately and confirmed that indeed this is something that the Air Defense people have been doing for several years evidently at trade shows. They also agreed that while showing what their product can do, it is a pretty sleazy way...
 
 
 
 
 
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SQL Injection Defense Tools

2008-06-24 16:43:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...defense guidelines. The SDL requires guidance and education for end-users, and tools to verify security settings are highly recommended, as defined in " Stage 5: Implementation Phase: Creating Documentation and Tools for Users that Address Security and Privacy ". Today, Microsoft is releasing two new SQL injection defense and detection tools,...
 
 
 
 
 
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Air Defense is hijacking WAPs at Infosec World

2008-03-11 11:45:53 by HASH0x8ae98e0 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Defense will have their WAPs spoof the SSID of the preferred network. Then you get connected to the Air Defense WAP and you are redirected to their advertising site I have nothing against marketing but think that is pretty sleazy. If they have their WAP SSID labeled correctly and you want to connect to it fine. But hijacking other SSIDs is...
 
 
 
 
 
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More on the Air Defense WAP phishing story

2008-03-19 10:52:54 by HASH0x8b3e364 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Defense ( here and here ) for phishing WAPs at the InfoSecWorld trade show. Well just to show you that sometimes people make mistakes and if you blog it, you may get it addressed, I wanted to share the following email that I received today. I have redacted out the names to protect the innocent and the guilty Alan Let me start by first...
 
 
 
 
 
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More on the Air Defense WAP phishing story

2008-03-19 11:02:00 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Defense ( here and here ) for phishing WAPs at the InfoSecWorld trade show. Well just to show you that sometimes people make mistakes and if you blog it, you may get it addressed, I wanted to share the following email that I received today. I have redacted out the names to protect the innocent and the guilty Alan Let me start by first...
 
 
 
 
 
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Extremism in defense of security is no vice

2008-09-04 00:00:00 by Chuck Yoke in Network World on Security
 
...defense of liberty is no vice." As a supporter of a strong defense during a time when the Vietnam peace movement was gathering momentum, Goldwater was portrayed as an extremist by his political rivals. Even though this image of a hawkish warmonger would be used to the Democrat's advantage during the presidential campaign, Goldwater stood by...
 
 
 
 
 
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Security World: Trend adds Intrusion Defense Firewall to OfficeScan

2007-12-17 22:44:10 by Editor in Help Net Security - News
 
The new Trend Micro Intrusion Defense Firewall plug-in for OfficeScan 8.0 brings network-level Host Intrusion Prevention System capabilities to the endpoint. With IDF, malicious network communication
 
 
 
 
 
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In defense of Caller-ID spoofing

2008-03-06 00:00:00 by Paul McNamara in Network World on Security
 
It's not me mounting the defense, mind you. However, I thought it worth noting that a pair of recent columns -- "Confessions of a Caller-ID spoofer" and "Caller-ID spoofing burns fire equipment company" -- generated significant reader reaction, not all of it in lockstep condemnation of the practice