Andrew Hay

Monthly Archives: September 2008

September 29, 2008
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links for 2008-09-29

NSA Offers Security Advice For Macs – Apple Unvarnished – InformationWeek Nice little tip sheet to help lock down your OSX installation. (tags: osx mac security harden nsa) Forensic Focus – News – Helix 2.0 released Looks like Helix 2.0 … Continue reading →

September 29, 2008
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The Andrew Hay Butterfly Effect

Have you ever thought that your actions impacted more than your immediate surroundings? I’m really starting to think that the books that I author trigger some sort of butterfly effect. Take, for example, the OSSEC Host-Based Intrusion Detection Guide. About … Continue reading →

September 27, 2008
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My Letter to the Minister of National Defence

In May of this year I sent an email to Peter MacKay, Canada’s Minister of National Defence, to enquire about Canada’s involvement in the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence (CCD) Centre of Excellence (COE): Hello, As a Canadian security expert and … Continue reading →

September 9, 2008
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Japan (not Iran, China, or North Korea) Attacks!

According to this Network World article, a study by Akamai indicates that 30% of all attack traffic, monitored across their 30,000 servers, originates from Japan. The attacks monitored include distributed denial-of-service attacks, Web site hacking attempts and DNS hijackings for … Continue reading →