http://www.bradberkemier.com My Place On The Tubes Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:00:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's not a new threat really. People inside an organization can always be a threat. It's just that many people, some of them prominent security professionals, have been downplaying the insider threat lately in order to hype other emerging threats. I'm of the opinion that we'll see insider threats rise ... http://www.bradberkemier.com/2009/02/the-new-insider-threat/ via xkcd http://www.bradberkemier.com/2009/02/rubber-hose-cryptanalysis/ I'm posting this because I was discussing web hosting with a friend of mine recently. I thought I'd tell you a bit about my web host, Nearly Free Speech. They have a unique pricing model that's completely pay as you go. You only pay for what you use and you ... http://www.bradberkemier.com/2009/02/web-hosting/ Title: The long winded title for this book is Nmap Network Scanning: The Official Nmap Project Guide to Network Discovery and Security Scanning, but I'll just be calling it NNS. Author: Gordon "Fyodor" Lyon Rating: ***** Bottom Line: The definitive nmap book, for all your network scanning needs. From the moment you start to ... http://www.bradberkemier.com/2009/02/nmap-network-scanning/ Are you backing up your bookmarks? Oh, you don't store local bookmarks? You use a social bookmarking website you say? Well I hope you weren't using Ma.gnolia. They announced on Friday morning that they've experienced a catastrophic data loss. Wired is reporting Ma.gnoalia has lost both their production database and ... http://www.bradberkemier.com/2009/02/bookmark-backup/ I've been thinking about risk analysis recently. The Times Online has an interesting story on teaching risk analysis in schools. People need proper tools to assess the deluge of information given to them. They tend to blow emotional stories up (like one person in the US getting mad cow disease) ... http://www.bradberkemier.com/2009/01/risk-analysis/ Some interesting posts on the SANS Internet Storm Center blog. I'm sure these have already been posted everywhere (I saw one on delicious earlier), but it's always good to have these kinda things to refer back to later. The first post is about targeted social engineering. One of the more interesting ... http://www.bradberkemier.com/2009/01/interesting-sans-posts/ You may notice the blog at times might not look quite right. I'm still perodically working on the CSS style to get it to look correct. While I work on it you might notice it looking whacky. I'm temporarily leaving on the default look until I finish the design. http://www.bradberkemier.com/2009/01/style/ [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="464" caption="Transatlantic Cables Terminated in Avon NJ"][/caption] I couldn't resist this juxtaposition. These cables are VSNL submarine telecommunications cables that cross the Atlantic and come above ground in the VSNL building in Avon, NJ. They are capable of carrying over an estimated 3.5 Tbps (that is terabits per ... http://www.bradberkemier.com/2009/01/juxtaposed/ Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! http://www.bradberkemier.com/2008/12/hello-world/