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Hey All,
I wanted to do a brief repost over here to direct everyone to the 5-part non-technical blog series that I did on cons (for the most part) and con experiences. This was my contribution to blogging following Blackhat / DEFCON.
Enjoy!
I thought this was interesting... I don't seldom have emails that are this long, but since every survey submission is seen as part of the same resonse, I've been seeing it. It appears as though every 61 messages, the thread is cut and a new one is started. Has anyone else seen this and possibly experienced a different number? If everyone else is indeed seeing 61, does anyone know why?
Does anyone from Google read this? If so, why cut the threads at 61?
Side Note; Anyone know when Google Apps will be getting the 'Always use SSL' checkbox?
Hey All,
Thanks to everyone who's filled it out, for those of you that haven't... you still can (survey). A large number of people are prefering to stay anonymous, but I have gotten some rather interesting comments. To date 169 people have filled out the survey. If all goes well, I'm hoping to start analyising the results after about a week or so.
To clarify, for anyone who reads this first... When I say Denial of Service, I'm not considering packet flooding (these days you essentially need DDoS for that)... I'm thinking single packets that cause servers to crash, or malformed pages that cause browsers to crash. That being said, I don't want to influence anyones answers... that's why I provided plenty of places for notes. Feel free to tell me what you really think.
Lastly, in the goal of making an interesting whitepaper out of this, I've started contacting vendors. Currently I've contacted Adobe, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Red Hat and Sun. I've asked them to answer the survey (and provide me with unique information via email that they will put in the name, email and url portions (for proper identification)) and I've passed on a few vendor specific questions. I've taken the route of contacting their PR agencies, so we'll see what happens.
Hey All,
Quick post here as I'm trying to gather some statistics related to Denial of Service and people's perception related to it. I've posted a small survey @ http://tinyurl.com/dossurvey, if anyone is interested in filling it out.
Thanks,
Tyler
Hey Everyone,
So Blackhat/Defcon is behind us... Instead of blogging about the talks, I've taken a different approach and I've been doing some non-technical blogging. In the end it will be a 5-part series, but the first three are already up.
They are:
The last two will most likely appear early next week.
Also, now that Blackhat/ DEFCON are over... What's next? As far as I know the next Con I'll be attending is SecTor. Last year was the first SecTor and I had the opportunity to attend. SecTor will actually make it's way into my upcoming blog series (from above) on the VERT Blog. That being said, I wanted to remind people that it's coming up, after all... it's held in Toronto and I live in Toronto, so the more people that attend, the more people I get to meet.
For anyone who didn't get a chance to visit SecTor last year and is curious about the quality / style of the talks, I tried to write-up everything that I saw.
Of course, these are biased because they're all my opinion, but I do recommend the Con for anyone that can make it up this way. Let me know if you'll be coming up and we'll make arrangements to get together for a beer.
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I learned something rather cool today, and whenever I learn something, I like to share it.
I'm sure everyone is aware of this and I'm the last one to learn about it, but it's cool anyways. Let's say your GMail (or Google Apps account) is example@gmail.com. You can create customized addresses for each mailing list, or page you sign up for (for separation, or to see if anyone is selling your address) by using + in your email.
Example:
example+computerdefense.org@gmail.com will still be delivered to example@gmail.com, however it will contain that unique identifier in the address. This allows you to identify spam that computerdefense.org may generate (of course, that would never happen), or to distinguish incoming email.
Another potential use (especially on the Google Apps side) is for a small business with a sales office. Let's say you have 20 customers, you could easily distinguish between mail from each customer by giving them the following addresses sales+customer1@mybusiness.com, sales+customer2@mybusiness.com, etc.
As I said, this is probably old news... but it's new to me, so I figured I'd share.
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