Spoke of how we can use google alerts to help us in our daily tasks to track where our information is being sent out to.
Discussion ensued about Scroogle.org not to be confused with scoogle.com and how you can do secure searching though the site and that the site purges logs with in 48 hours.
A mention of Cisco was brought up and we also spoke of a visualized version for the Cisco Mips processors and the specific virtualized version of the Cisco 7200 Routers.
Politics is by no means our idea of entertainment when it comes to our blogs, however to see such a strong candidate pick a “technological bi-polar” candidate as the potential VP, it makes you wonder if McCain is already a winner.
Joe Biden was picked as Obama’s VP candidate if they are to take the White House this upcoming election. Apparently his views towards net neutrality, the RIAA, and anti-encryption are a little skewed over the past few years. I’m sure the EFF doesn’t think too highly of him either. Although he may have experience in foreign policy, how does that protect our rights here in the U.S. as he was a key player when it came to the Patriot Act amongst many other laws that passed through the Senate. Follow the links below to make your own assumption of our potential Vice President.
Thanks to Mubix for his posting on ZDNet, below you will find a link that describes all of the latest tools that were presented at Defcon 16. Use them at your own discretion and make sure you have permission if using them on an enterprise network! As Mubix has no control over the ZDnet posting, you can visit his site and keep up-to-date on the latest happenings.
Last night we decided to discuss a little more on the DNS vulnerability issue that’s been the hot topic everywhere in terms of detection and defense. Thanks to guest Chris Wilson for his invaluable insight into the snort signature we were provided by alexkirk in #snort on irc.freenode.net.
We also discussed detection of encrypted traffic on a network, and some of the implications of it.
