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Anatomy of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack

The recent wave of DDoS attacks on banking web sites, and the Spamhaus DDoS attack (which was three to five times greater than the biggest attacks against U.S. banks) is reinfor...

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Mobile Application Security Testing FAQs: Post #1

A couple weeks ago I presented a webcast at Security Innovation that covered techniques for testing mobile applications. As usual I was long winded with stories and analogies an...

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CISCO Password Revealer

I haven’t had much luck with any CISCO clients on the mac. Inevitably clients will send me a CISCO profile configurations that I can’t easily use on my mac. I went searching for...

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Which is More Secure: Windows or Linux?

Somebody on LinkedIn asked the above question to a group I’m part of. I decided to answer it thinking “Oh, I can chime in with a quick little answer”, but the more I wrote the m...