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Good Fences: An Information Security Blog

Good Fences: An Information Security Blog

http://shimsec.blogspot.com

Hi, my name is Mike Shimniok and I’ve been an infosec geek since 1995. I thought I’d put together some observations, thoughts, comments, and ramblings about information security.

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    Posted on Monday July 13th, 2009 at 08:00 in intellectual property, insider threat

    Yet another example of the trusted insider threat against intellectual property.In the days before his June 5 resignation from Goldman Sachs, Aleynikov copied, encrypted and transferred approximately 32MB of proprietary code to a server located in Ge...

  • FTC persuades court to shutter rogue ISP

    Posted on Wednesday July 8th, 2009 at 14:47 in spam

    I feel the recent action of the FTC against a rogue ISP, documented in this article, marks a shift in the tides in the war against spam.It seems much of the junk email originates from ISPs that refuse to follow the rules, allowing anonymous spammers ...

  • Criminals Steal $415k from Bullitt County

    Posted on Saturday July 4th, 2009 at 01:32 in spam, phishing, social engineering, internet crime

    I am getting kind of burned out on computer security. I know, I know, it's only been 14 years that I have been in the trenches and, after all, we are making such tremendous progress in the infosec industry in that brief span of time.Now instead of c...

  • CanSecWest Browser Hacking Contest - what a help

    Posted on Wednesday May 13th, 2009 at 15:15 in hacking, exploits, browsers

    SecurityFocus article is here.Security researcher Charlie Miller held onto a vulnerability for an entire year, before using it on Wednesday to win $5,000 and an Apple laptop at the Pwn2Own contest here at the CanSecWest conference.I'm not sure which ...

  • USA Today: Hackers got into 18 computer servers at World Bank

    Posted on Sunday October 19th, 2008 at 09:31 in espionage, internet crime

    Did you see the USA Today article on the World Bank intrusions?Cyberintruders used the Internet to crack into at least 18 computer servers at the World Bank Group last July.One bank memo lists the breached servers and makes this assessment: "As of 9/...

  • Infosec Fortune Cookie Friday

    Posted on Friday September 5th, 2008 at 15:04 in infosec fortune cookie

    Mitigating a risk with a stringent security control can create its own risk: that of business interruption....

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