APT – Attempting to steal your domain
David Dede We all hear of APT (advanced persistent threat) and this is a good example of one trying to steal the vl.com domain. Very good read:…
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Cloud-based (FILE) Integrity Monitoring
If you are a system administrator or have ever worked with security, you probably heard the terms file integrity monitoring or file integrity checking. If…
The Importance of logging for web applications – Security talk
If you think that your logs are only useful when something crashes or when you need to troubleshoot errors on your web application, think again!…
Honeypot analysis – Full disclosure works
When all else fails, *full disclosure (the process) seems to work. Early in January, we sent a bunch of emails to the people at the…
Improve Domain Name Security, Lessons Learned
I was very glad to interested to read this article by http://syedaqeel.com/ where he talks about a recent domain name hijacking that he suffered and…
Password security without a password manager
Daniel from http://www.dailyblogtips.com published an article with some of his ideas on how to create passwords for multiple sites. The idea is to create an…
Who has better passwords? Men or Women?
A few days ago Tonu Samuel published the distribution of passwords between men and women for a site with more than 800,000 users. Who do…
Careful with Those Shortened Links
Awesome article by Dailyblogtips about the Security of Short links. They even mention Sucuri: If you want to be safe, therefore, only click on shortened…
Network Integrity Monitoring Article on DailyBlogTips
Integrity monitoring is a very common practice on server security, generally done inside a file system, where it creates a cryptographic checksum of all your…
Sucuri Quote from Lenny Zeltser
Quote from Lenny Zeltser (from SANS) on Twitter about Sucuri: Free service by @sucuri_security detects changes to website content, DNS, whois records: http://sucuri.net. Quite handy.…
Check that short URL before clicking on it
URL Un-shortening service supporting all shortening sites (bit.ly, tinyurl, diff, etc) that also checks the URL using google safe browsing and Siteadvisor: http://sucuri.net/index.php?page=tools&title;=check-url