Business IT Systems Consultants and Support
You just received an email from a person you know and there’s an attachment. The problem is you weren’t expecting either! Is the attached file OK or did the other person’s computer get infected and send that attachment? You can play “attachment roulette” and hope OR you can in less than a minute or two [...]
Quoting Ed Skoudis from “Counter Hack” , “Passwords are the most commonly used computer security tool in the world today. In many organizations, the lowly password often protects some of the most sensitive secrets imaginable, including health care information, confidential business strategies, sensitive financial data and so on. Unfortunately, with this central role in security, [...]
An edited version of this article was originally printed in the May 2009 edition of Hakin9 Magazine under Tool Reviews. As an IT consultant I frequently need to monitor and analyze network traffic. Wireshark is easily the tool of choice. Introduction: The great white is one of the undisputed masters of the open seas and [...]
Cybercrime Is Here to Stay Our society has evolved to the point where many if not most of us spend a significant portion of our lives online. In many ways, this online virtual world mirrors our real world. Criminals, who are an unfortunate but integral part of our social structure, quite naturally have also appeared [...]
With the Conflicker worm having become the latest of the Internet scares being propagated by the main stream news media we thought it essential to cover this topic a bit. The Conflicker worm is programmed so that infected machines attempt to update themeselves periodically with the next known update being for April 1, 2009. That [...]