One nice thing about having lots of traffic flowing through WebPulse, and having lots of modules watching for malicious and suspicious activity, is that it's always easy to find an interesting topic for the blog. (The tricky part is finding time to follow a lead, do the background research, and write the blog post. I […]
A hazard of cloud-based services is reputation hijacking — using the cover of a legitimate cloud service to do bad things. For example, you can’t block the domain “Google.com”, because it has legitimate purposes. So a network administrator is left in a difficult quandrary. As an example, Google Docs (specifically, Spreadsheets), is a playpen for […]
Update: It seems like the initial article is inaccurate and that Paul Rellis never made any such comments about a 14 year old breaking into the X-Box live servers and have not offered to mentor him http://kotaku.com/5805742/microsoft-is-helping-an-xbox-live-hacker-develop-his-talent TekGoblin reports (http://www.tekgoblin.com/2011/05/27/14-year-old-call-of-duty-hacker-hired-by-microsoft/) that a teenager who broke into the Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 gameservers last […]
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