Archive for the ‘Real world’ category

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“Don’t need AV, we have a firewall”

July 12, 2010

A friend stopped by to ask if security suite x was any good or not. This led onto a conversation about a place she was working that wasn’t running any AV on windows machines. The rational behind this came from a 3rd party IT support guy  who said “you don’t need AV on the Windows [...]

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Regaining reputation after defacement

June 23, 2010

After the defacement and clean up, I was going about my normal business when a couple of friends noted that select pieces of reputation software are highlighting the site as either a phishing site or malicious content. This means folks would be blocked or have WARNING EVIL signs as they attempted to connect to this [...]

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From China with Love

June 20, 2010

I received two gifts from a family member returning from China. It was a lovely though and I was touched by the gesture. Both items are of the geek variety and bought from stalls, one a ball point pen with a built in 2GB USB stick that can act as a voice recorder and the [...]

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Being Defaced and cleaning up

June 20, 2010

One of the wonderful pieces of IT security defense is planning for when you get your arse handed to you. The more technical term is incident response, but it’s not as much fun to say to your mates at the pub. Being attacked and having to recover is sadly part of IT life these days, [...]

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Security role in Sydney

March 20, 2010

A new role has been created at a well known security firm in Sydney, and they want you – well, if you’re any good. These guys do great work, have excellent clients and the environment to sharpen your security skills to a razor’s edge. Normally, I’d leave you to hunt through your favorite job web [...]