Nevena Vratonjic Julien Freudiger Vincent Bindschaedler Jeane-Pierre Hubaux Presentation [PDF] Twitter transcript #weis2011 Overview of basic ssl/tls/https concepts. Asking: how prevalent is https, what are problems with https? #weis2011 Out of their large sample, only 1/3 (34.7%) have support for https, login is worse! only 22.6% < #data! #weis2011 (me) just like Microsoft for patches/vulns,… Continue reading
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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
Never A Better Time To Baseline
If you’re preparing to install Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1, now would be a good time to give Microsoft’s Attack Surface Analyzer a spin. ASA takes a baseline snapshot of your system state and then lets you take another snapshot after any configuration change or product installation and displays the… Continue reading
Quick Hits :: 2011-02-09
Security VSR uses some high-ish profile attacks from 2010 to provide fodder for the VAR community :: Security Risk: Top Hacker Attacks of 2010. I include it as the examples they provide should make it easier for folks doing presentations where they need to show real-life attacks (without sifting through the individual entries at the… Continue reading
Quick Hits :: 2011-02-08
Security Originally meant to improve the security of jailbroken iOS devices, antid0te is now also available for OS X Snow Leopard thanks to the efforts of Stefan Esser. Since Apple engineers did not see fit to load the dynamic linker – dyld – at a random base address, they left a fairly significant hole that… Continue reading
‘Spaces’ for Windows
UPDATE [2011-02-05] Added VirtuaWin to the list thanks to a tip by @ken5m1th. I’ve been setting up a relatively new 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate machine and decided to see if the virtual desktops landscape had changed much in the recent past. It’s amazing that with all of the feature duplication between OS X, *nix (esp… Continue reading