2018-10-22 17:30
Today is a great day. I just started the publishing of my interactive serial hashtag#book .The book is a sci-fi story that integrates hashtag#cybersecurity challenges as interactive efforts… Read More
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2018-10-11 19:44
This week i tried to open an old TrueCrypt container. It turned out that i had forgotten the password. So I endeavored into the realm cracking the TrueCrypt container. Here are my experience… Read More
2018-10-11 19:41
I've had a discussion at the office about who is responsible for a certain activity. And as expected, the junior colleagues got into a discussion of who is more and who is less responsible f… Read More
2018-10-11 19:35
Steganography is still considered to be a part of the obscure tools of secret agents and corporate spies.However, steganography tools are widely available, and anyone can use them. Most of t… Read More
2018-10-11 15:51
I created a simple treasure hunt challenge for young InfoSec enthusiasts and professionals. It's mainly OSINT with some very basic crypto and a tactical story. No real prize except bragging… Read More
2018-10-11 15:32
I have been hugely busy in the past weeks with several projects, so the blogging got stuck... I will try to avoid this in the future. Now back to my latest experiencePart of every Informatio… Read More
2018-10-11 15:26
I wasn't planning to touch the issue of the Service Level Agreement (SLA) for some time, but it appears that the incident report (Link to Blog Post) has stirred attention that merit a post o… Read More
2018-10-11 15:23
I've had the opportunity to review several poor Service Level Agreement (SLA) contracts, which include clauses shielding the provider as if they are an endangered species. These clauses are… Read More
2018-10-11 15:16
Communication links provided by Telco providers are critical to most businesses. And as any network admin will tell you, these links tend to have outages, ranging from small interruptions up… Read More
2018-10-11 12:16
When preparing a Disaster Recovery Center, one of the most important decisions is the location of the location of the Disaster Recovery Center. Up until the 9/11, a lot of companies held the… Read More
2018-10-11 11:59
It has been more than 5 years since I've last updated this blog. Going back and reading through the materials i find a lot of legacy and already forgotten tools and processes, some futu… Read More
2014-01-10 11:39
Many years ago, on a great satire TV show named "Top Lista Nadrealista" - "The Surrealists Top Chart" I watched a sketch named "Do you want to be anonymous".The sketch presented a TV crew wa… Read More
2013-11-22 08:40
We provide a huge amount of information about us to many different online services. Naturally, these companies use that information to understand us in ways we have never imagined with only… Read More
2013-10-24 07:57
Yesterday evening I took the early adopter plunge and upgraded to Mac OS X Mavericks. My primary curiosity (as well as most others) was the battery life management. I followed the very … Read More
2013-09-17 13:55
Last weekend I got into a discussion with an insurance supervisor on the topics of risk assessment. He explained the process of work of actuaries in insurance, and that there are standardize… Read More
2012-07-10 11:39
Moving a service to a cloud provider can be a very beneficial activity (reducing cost, piece of mind, transfer of risk), but it can also create a huge amount of problems if not done correctl… Read More
2012-06-07 07:09
For the man who illustrated our imagination, and made me personally read more...rest in peace, RayRay Bradbury, 1938-2012 Read More
2012-03-23 13:19
Phone call social engineering is considered the easiest methods of social engineering: It does not involve personal contact, and leaves little in way of electronic trail (e-mail can leave mu… Read More
2012-02-11 17:00
Cell phones don’t feel newfangled but in truth they are. With innovation comes swift change, sometimes so swift that it is difficult for forensic scientists to keep up. Criminals use c… Read More
2012-01-18 07:56
Stop SOPA and PIPA: We openly declare our support for the efforts to prevent the ability for governments to police the Internet.Kudos to WikipediaTalkback and comments are most welcomeRelate… Read More
2012-01-14 21:30
Just before the sad event of Steve Jobs death, obtained a MacBook. While everyone is still immersed in reading the biography, we embarked on the journey of using a new OS for the first time… Read More
2012-01-10 23:00
IT has come a long way in the past 15 years, and definitely has advanced into the realm of commodity service. But there are still complexities under the hood of this commodity service. One… Read More
2011-12-27 09:53
It has been a while since the last published article, and we are not going to try to make excuses.But we are enticed to do a quick note of the developing story of STRATFOR. In summary, Strat… Read More
2011-09-08 17:11
Technology has done a great deal for changing the way we live and do business today. While the benefits are numerous, however, there have been challenges that come with that development. Her… Read More
2011-08-22 09:23
Centralizing your storage is always a very good idea - you can manage storage requirements of most servers through a central storage system, without the hassle of juggling local disks within… Read More
2011-08-11 22:47
Regardless of procedures and policies, a company can have a nearly permanent security issue in top management. This issue results from the speed with which top management requires their serv… Read More
2011-08-07 20:18
More and more IT services are being outsourced. And as telco services are now easily integrated and transported over IP protocols, the outsourcing is being well established with telco.But th… Read More
2011-07-29 10:28
Information gathering from public sources is still one of the best ways to understand your potential target.I have been reading a great book called "The Big Short". It's a book about the fin… Read More
2011-06-30 13:54
Software security is a highly technical and vital skill in today's evolving technological marketplace. Even so, programs specializing in this area are quite rare. In fact, it's more common t… Read More
2011-06-23 09:01
In 2008 we published an article on cloud computing, which basically said, don't turn off your local datacenter. To be very sincere, Shortinfosec was a little hypocritical in that article - s… Read More
2011-06-14 19:14
Every corporation nowadays is very concerned with account security. And the first thing that an auditor or security officer asks for are the treatment and storage of the default admin accou… Read More
2011-06-06 05:50
Computer hackers and cyber-terrorists can wreak havoc on information systems (IS). Because of this looming threat, the demand for cyber-security specialists – and information security… Read More
2011-06-03 09:40
Having an antivirus software is a gold standard in the Windows world. But what if you are using a Mac? The prevailing opinion is that there aren't enough viruses or malware in the wild to me… Read More
2011-06-02 05:18
A server is essentially a computer that does not do anything else but supply and store information for other computers. You could be using one of your computers as a server in your office, f… Read More
2011-05-31 09:22
Security incidents come in all shapes and sizes. They can affect availability, confidentiality or integrity. Shortinfosec organized a Linkedin poll to observe the opinions of the professiona… Read More
2011-05-20 15:23
Being involved in a security project requires lot of resources: a good measure of knowledge, a huge measure of experience, some amount of software and personnel. Usually time is in short s… Read More
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