A Day in the Life of an Information Security InvestigatorThis security guru shares his unique experiences working with federal, corporate, and military institutions and provides his perspective on the security issues impacting the IT industry today. Get the security information you need right here, so that no one will have to pass you the clue banana!Help Out The Chief - Check Your Logfiles- August 28, 2008 Sorry for the week of no posts, but I'm up to my monkey ears in work! I'd like to ask a favor of my readers since most of you are deeply plugged in to the security architectures of your respective areas. Can you please check your security logs (firewall, spam, anti-virus, etc.) for any traffic going to this IP block: 217.17.254.024 I'm trying to get my hands on a forensic image of any machine that has malware on it talking to this network. Anyone that can produce such an ihttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/securitymonkey/h... Banana Cupboard Story: Don't Get PR Burned During an IT Security Incident- August 20, 2008 Mandoskippy submitted this GREAT piece of advice for adhering to policies and procedures during high profile IT security incidents. I won't suck all of the air out of the room... here's Mandoskippy: font face="Times New Roman"http://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/securitymonkey/b... Banana Cupboard Story: Stolen PC Recovered by Logmein.com- August 20, 2008 Check out this story from Cougar78! This is excellent reading and my compliments to him on some fine investigative work!! Congrats!! span style="font-size: 1http://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/securitymonkey/b... PICS: Sexyhacking.com Party At DefCon (hosted by EDGEOS)- August 13, 2008 As promised, here are just a few pics from the sexyhacking.com party, sponsored by EDGEOS. Our story begins 400 feet from the Riviera hotel and casino:img src="http:lh3.ggpht.comchiefmonkeySKN54LXbGAIAAAAAAAAAOwWZtwGtLWAwws4http://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/securitymonkey/p... DefCon 2008: How I Snuck Lockpicks By The TSA- August 12, 2008 i-hacked.com has a great post up today that describes ax0n's method for getting lockpicks onboard an airliner. a href="http:picasaweb.google.comchiefmonkeyBlackhat2008Picsphoto523366http://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/securitymonkey/d... Stories from BlackHat DefCon- August 11, 2008 Just in case you missed them, these are what I believe to be the top stories out of BlackHat 2008 and Def Con 16: Vista Security Gutted By New Web Exploit (from Electronista) French Reporters At BlackHat Booted for... Hacking Fellow Reporters (from Wired) a href="http:blog.wired.com27bstrhttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/securitymonkey/s... Def Con Updates Via Twitter Only!- August 7, 2008 With the recent death of my MBP's battery, I will be doing updates live from Def Con via Twitter only. Sorry everybody. I got nearly 2 years of hard use out of that battery. I believe it is defective and covered by Applecare. My twitter feed is here: https:twitter.comchiefmonkey. I will try to post some Twitter pix if possible. Picture taking is restricted in some areas at Def Con so I'll have to make sure I don't get any faces in thehttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/securitymonkey/d... Banana Cupboard Story: Unexpected Traffic Patterns OH MY!- August 7, 2008 Reader AW has hit it out of the park again with a GREAT banana cupboard story. You guys are going to love this - and just in time for Def Con! Enjoy! - Chief (Send me your stories! chiefmonkey AT gmail.com) In the exciting world of corporate security, you're sometimes blessedwith a degree of controhttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/securitymonkey/b... BlackHat 2008 LiveBlog: Day 2- August 7, 2008 Day 2 has begun! Day 1 can be found here. Keynote: National Security Ken Beckstrom, Director of the NCSC. Lots of United States history anecdotes - I'm a history buff, so this was yummy. Question: How do we work better together today to achieve security Offense is so much easier than defense. The economic of securityhttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/securitymonkey/b... A Few Photos From BlackHat 2008 - Day 1- August 6, 2008 The Keynote img src="http:lh5.ggpht.comchiefmonkeySJouE1wXqsIAAAAAAAAANA2FVvDJ-34RYs288IMG_http://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/securitymonkey/a... |