Collaborate Disseminate
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Although “cyber security” is a relatively new field, it already has quite an interesting history, and it is worthwhile to look back at it from time to time. One historical event, that took place in February of the Orwellian year 1984, and which â therefore â celebrates its 40th anniversary this month, was publishing of Federic Cohen’s paper entitled “Computer viruses: Theory and experiments”[1], which is often cited as the origin of the term “computer virus”.
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Many organizations publicly list contact information to help consumers reach out for help when needed. This may be general contact information or a full public directory of staff. It seems obvious that having any kind of publicly available information will increase the liklihood that these accounts will receive spam or phishing emails. To help understand a bit of this, I set up a brand new domain with a very basic website and collected email using Amazon SES [1] for a couple of weeks. The website contained email addresses in a variety of formats:
Continue reading Public Information and Email Spam, (Mon, Feb 5th)
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This is fork from the original work by Scott Jensen [1][2] originally published here as guest diary part of the SANS.edu BACS program. This update has a number of new features now available in Github [4].
Continue reading DShield Sensor Log Collection with Elasticsearch, (Sat, Feb 3rd)
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In yesterday&#;x26;#;39;s diary, I discussed a new proposed top-level domain, “.internal”. This reminded me to talk a bit about what a top-level domain is all about, and some different ways to look at the definition of a top-level domain.
Continue reading What is a “Top Level Domain”?, (Thu, Feb 1st)
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In the beginning, life was easy. We had a very limited set of top-level domains: .com, .edu, .gov, ..int, org, .mil, .net, .org, .edu. In addition, we had .arpa for infrastructure use and various two letter country level domains.
Continue reading The Fun and Dangers of Top Level Domains (TLDs), (Wed, Jan 31st)