Year: 2008

The Launch of The Academy Website

academyThe Academy (http://www.theacademy.ca) officially launches its web site today providing instructional videos for the information security community. For the first time ever, the average user to the most seasoned industry expert will be able to watch instructional videos on how to install popular products, address common configuration issues, and troubleshoot difficult problems. The Academy is a user driven community and videos are created at the request of its members. Vendors can also leverage the site to showcase the features and capabilities of their products. The Academy is an ideal place to find and share knowledge with others practicing or interested in the information security field.

Yours truly will be contributing as many log related videos as possible so that people understand how to properly make those crazy blinking boxes they have in their racks send logs.

OSSEC Book Finally Has a Cover

I’m proud to say that my forthcoming OSSEC book finally has a cover associated with it on Amazon.com. Check it out 🙂

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Japan brings down Godzilla of spam

godzillaNow all we have to worry about is “the Mothra of malware” and “the Rodan of rootkits” 🙂

From the article:

Japanese police have arrested a “prolific spammer” who allegedly bombarded inboxes with hundreds of millions of messages punting internet gambling and dating sites.

Investigators reckon Yuki Shiina, 25, sent as many as 2.2 billion spam messages using what appears to be rudimentary spamming techniques. He allegedly purchased a list of 600,000 email addresses for a pricey ¥100,000 ($927), earning ¥2m ($18,540) through a subsequent spamming campaign, security vendor Sophos reports.

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