A recent PCMag article by Larry Seltzer highlighted some of the security risks within routing infrastructures and how the uniquely named Chuck Norris botnet looks across network devices and finds default passwords as an entry point to spread harmful code or take control of devices. Even though this one...

"Holy Crap!" exclaimed David from the depths of the cube farm, "We just failed the PCI audit! Check out the email from Tony." Tony is the CIO. David is one of my co-workers, a good friend, and overall smart guy. I turned to my email and checked out the message. Sure enough, the Payment...

I've been doing more consulting work and am surprised by the number of organizations that don't use anti-spoofing filters within their networks. An anti-spoofing filter is placed on the input side of a router interface of a user subnet and only allows packets through that are within the address...

I was just reading about a neat free wireless vulnerability scanner written by Josh Wright, WiFiDEnum . It scans both wired and wireless systems and checks for vulnerable wireless drivers. Josh was interviewed by Network World and the resulting 'chat' is at Wireless security foiled by new exploits...

One of the security factors I’ve heard espoused about IPv6 is that the large address space (128 bits: 64 bits of network and 64 bits of host address) makes it impossible to scan the network for hosts. On initial inspection, this seemed like a reasonable thought. However, when you look at IPv6's...