A while back I was engaged in a conversation on Twitter with @diami03 & @chriseng regarding (what I felt was) the need for someone to provide the perspective from within a medium-to-large enterprise, especially when there are so many folks in infosec who are fond of saying “why didn’t they just…?” in response to events… Continue reading
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What Can We Learn From The @lulzsec senate.gov Hack Dump?
What can the @lulzsec senate.gov dump tell us about how the admins maintained their system/site? [code light=”true”]SunOS a-ess-wwwi 5.10 Generic_139555-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise[/code] means they haven’t kept up with OS patches. [-1 patch management] [code light=”true”]celerra:/wwwdata 985G 609G 376G 62% /net/celerra/wwwdata[/code] tells us they use EMC NAS kit for web content. The ‘last‘ dump shows… Continue reading
WEIS 2011 :: Keynote :: Dr Christopher Greer
Dr Greer [cgreer at ostp.eop.gov] is Assistant Director, Information Technology R&D, Office of Science & Technology Policy, The White House Opening: “The expertise of the attendees is greatly needed.” He provided a broad overview of the goals & initiatives of the federal government as they relate to domestic & international cybersecurity. Greer went through the… Continue reading