Zen and the Art of Malware Detection [securitytheater.phoneboy.com]
Detecting malicious code that enters your network is challenging problem that traditional anti-virus and anti-malware can't keep up with. The main message? It catches the really obvious stuff.
Securing Data in the Cloud [securitytheater.phoneboy.com]
On my podcast PhoneBoy Speaks today, I discussed (very briefly) the idea of doing information security in the cloud. Surely, I could talk and write volumes on the subject.
How to Not Be Like Burger King. Or Jeep. [securitytheater.phoneboy.com]
On today's episode of PhoneBoy Speaks, I discuss how to prevent your Twitter account from being hacked like Burger King's account was.
Guys I'm really sorry for the OverPour vomit. Apparently it doesn't deal well with URL changes…
Fun with Compliance [securitytheater.phoneboy.com]
Earlier this week, I hung out with Jeremy Kaye, one of our in-house compliance experts at Check Point:http://www.youtube.com/embed/uvL6HdlrW08While I've been doing InfoSec for a while, or at least wo…
Moving The Security Theater Elsewhere [securitytheater.phoneboy.com]
I decided to move PhoneBoy's Security Theater off of Wordpress onto Posthaven. On the plus side, it's one less instance of Wordpress to maintain.
Blast from the CHKP Past: Can't Get Putkeys to Work [securitytheater.phoneboy.com]
For those of you who never had to work with Check Point FireWall-1 4.1 and earlier, you're lucky you likely never EVER had to use putkeys.The fw putkey was used to establish authentication between th…
FireWall-1 User Interface from 3.0 [securitytheater.phoneboy.com]
If you ran Check Point FireWall-1 on SunOS or Solaris, you probably remember this screen: This is a screen capture from fwui, the management interface for FireWall-1.
The TSA and A Lesson in Data Loss Prevention [securitytheater.phoneboy.com]
From PhoneBoy Speaks Ep 305: Threat? Clearly this unredacted, sealed legal brief should have never been made public. The rest of the Internet won't necessarily forget, though.
Blast from the CHKP Past: Can't Talk to Translated IP from Internal Net [securitytheater.phoneboy.com]
It's pretty obvious from looking through the number of 404s I'm seeing in Google's Webmaster tools that a lot of pages still link to old stuff I wrote about Check Point FireWall-1. Ho…