The science of insider fraud
IT Wire is running something neat today, researchers in Australia have combined efforts to automate the process of detecting (internal) employee fraud. This research is of particular interest to any company that enjoys a decentralized structure that enables employees to work from home via the Internet. To explain why this sort of research is so [...]
Sore losers
When Google updated their page rank statistics, I did not get upset. Some of my sites went up, some went down, some stayed the same. That’s what always happens. I don’t run massive internally linked networks of click traps, so I was not a target of their crackdown. Starting at around 4:00 AM yesterday, one [...]
CI Host robbed at gunpoint (again)
Its been disclosed, yet again, that CI Host Chicago was indeed stormed by armed robbers who stole 20+ servers and assorted network gear on October 2nd. This makes the fourth time since 2005 that CI Host Chicago has been robbed in this manner. CI Host delayed disclosing the theft of their customer’s co-located computers for [...]
Spammers learn from Tom Sawyer
This is funny, scary and sort of sad all at once. You’ve all seen those boxes that display fuzzy images then ask you to type what you see prior to being able to login to some service, these are known as CAPTCHA blocks, making it very difficult for robot programs to access things like web [...]
Yet another virtual appliance
In my on-going effort to make the building blocks for a “poor man’s” cluster, I’ve decided to get to work on some virtual appliance images suitable for use with Xen (and possibly others). Pound is a great load balancing tool. Its light weight, super easy to configure and pretty reliable. Depending on the kind of [...]
Why always blame the web host?
A friend of mine (and operator of a small hosting company) was chatting with me about a client who insisted that his web site was hacked because the “server was insecure”. Every time I hear that, I chuckle. I’m hearing it at an alarming rate lately, as many people are getting fed up with larger [...]
Virtualization does NOT decrease security!
Theo de Raadt made some rather general (and sweeping) statements regarding how virtualization might or might not increase or decrease security. I’m not at all concerned with the things that he suggests. Many programmers have never had to deal with the hosting (IAAS) industry. When you sell access to GNU/Linux (Or BSD) computers to anyone [...]
Proxy service? I don’t need no stinking proxy service!
I use free software and have SSH Traveling can be a major pain in the derrier when you are security paranoid. Almost every single thing that I can access via the Internet that relates to money has been set to allow only certain IP addresses. Managing your life while on the road can be a [...]
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