Yesterday VMware finally launched the next version of Fusion for the Mac. Being a user of this software primarily for security research, rather than for its ability to run Windows applications, I thought I would investigate whether it’s worth upgrading. First, here is a portion of their press release. I”ve bolded the features I...
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In a previous post I talked about one aspect of making sure URLs you visit are safe. While writing that post, I started thinking about what I do and would recommend to browse securely while still keeping the experience usable. Of course the “usable” requirement here means excluding efforts such using a separate computer...
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Yeah, you read the title right. It’s based on an article I read the other day titled “Scrub Your PC Clean: Remove Malware in 4 Easy Steps” on Gizmodo. The article mostly focused on Windows-based malware caught through web browsing. I’d also say it was probably more than four steps – yeah maybe four...
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Last week I read a great article over on the ISC Diary by Rob VandenBrink that asked the question “Should We Still Test Patches?” Rob makes some excellent points! Given that Microsoft and Adobe coming out with patches tomorrow and me being on the road missing NovaHackers tonight, I thought I’d throw in my...
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Where do you want to be this week? Now you’ll always know with our “Where You Want to Be This Week” feature, which will tell you about infosec meetups happening in your local area as of Sunday night. If you would like your event listed in our Calendar and in this post, contact us...
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Thought we would try a new type of blog where we post out a quick summary of all our stories as well as the industry articles you seemed to like the most from the past week. If you missed anything or happened to be offline, we thought this post might be a good quick...
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I’ve talked about compliance before however @carnal0wnage recently tweeted a great link to a video explaining the difference between compliance and security. I think this video makes it much more clear than any write-up could possibly do. And no … it isn’t for those of us in the echo chamber but rather something you...
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