Last week I had the awesome opportunity to visit the ExactTarget Global headquarters in London. A project I have been working on required someone to be physically present in our office over there and I was picked to be that someone. This was cool for several reasons – first and foremost being that it was [...]
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It’s going to be a long night…
Posted: 21st March 2011 by John in PersonalTags: 2011, random, Travel
I sit here in Newark waiting (im)patiently for the announcement that my flight is ready to board. I’ve got another hour and a half until the scheduled boarding time, and I’m really hopeful for an on-time departure. Those of you who follow me on Twitter know I’m embarking on a journey across the pond to [...]
As I deal with Application Security issues, I’ve found that quite a few people don’t fully understand the dangers of attack vectors like SQL injection and Cross Site Scripting (XSS). It’s at least somewhat easy to illustrate the dangers of SQL injection – just point them to this XKCD strip. Far more difficult to explain [...]
*bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz* *bzzzzzzzzzzz *bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz* Another 800 number calling – I let it go to voicemail. Then it happened again … *Bzzzzzzzzzzzzz* *bzzzzzzzzzzz* *bzzzzzzzzzzzzz*. Slightly annoyed, I again let it go to voicemail. A minute or so later, my phone chirps again – notifying me that I have voicemail. This intrigued me – very rarely do [...]
There’s a bad habit that I think pervades infosec right now: Focusing on the technology without understanding and nailing the basics. For instance – having IDS and IPS systems on all segments of your network is good… but doesn’t help you if you’re not monitoring and doing correlation on the resulting output (and following up [...]
