Category Archives: Commentary

Hacking for Dollars $$$

Posted on 2007-05-18 by Space Rogue

iDefense just announced a bounty of $16,000 for remotely exploitable zero-day flaw in Apache, BIND, Sendmail, OpenSSH. IIS, or Exchange. This comes on the heals of the $10,000 plus a MacBook recently awarded by CanSecWest for remotely exploiting an OSX … Continue reading →

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Cyber UL

Posted on 2007-04-25 by Space Rogue

So why are there so many bad, nonsecure and just plain broken security products on the market? Should we depend on the unseen hand of the free market to allow the better products to bubble up to the top? Bruce … Continue reading →

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Mac Hack Hype

Posted on 2007-04-23 by Space Rogue

So by now you have probably heard about the MacBook Pro that was compromised at CanSecWest last Friday. Here is a quick recap if you missed it. A MacBook Pro with all updates applied on a wireless network, if you … Continue reading →

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Who Do You Trust?

Posted on 2007-04-19 by Space Rogue

Over and over people tell me that a product, service or other item is secure because someone else important uses it, and they are sooo important that they would never ever use or do anything insecure. So basically what they … Continue reading →

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Stupid Surveys

Posted on 2007-02-15 by Space Rogue

Ok, this is just to funny not to write about. As a previous Blackhat attendee (and speaker) my name is on the mailing list of whoever owns the conferance these days. Anyway, I get an email that was appropriately routed … Continue reading →

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