Monthly Archives: June 2009
Julie Amero case featured in new forensic book
A while back, Stephen Mason, an attorney in the UK, edited a book on electronic evidence called Electronic Evidence: Disclosure, Discovery & Admissibility. He’s updated the book to include an overview of the Julie Amero case, and the section on …
Your summer reading: a Month of Twitter Bugs
It might be a good idea to keep your ear to the ground in July and probably August for malicious exploits that take advantage of Twitter or third party services that use it. Researcher Aviv Raff, FraudAction has announced that …
Seven Habits and all that stuff
Some years ago, I read Covey’s book ‘Seven Habits of Highly Succesful People’. The message above all others that I took away from it was that the most succesful people ‘invested’ in building and maintaining RELATIONSHIPS. You’re probably wondering how …
Fake Update for Microsoft Outlook/Outlook Express (KB910721)
On the 22nd June I posted about the importance of securing the human element in an organization, and in that same week, the universe, or more correctly cyberspace, decided to provide a real world example of some of the points that …
Facebook’s testimony to the House
Of interest if you’re a privacy wonk. Link here. Alex Eckelberry
Email logs can tell more than you might expect
Two researchers with the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne studied records of email messages sent by 150 top staff members at Enron in the company’s last year and a half and found some interesting clues about how people in …
Using live.sysinternals.com as an ad-hoc analysis toolset
live.sysinternals.com is a great resource for ad-hoc use of Mark Russinovich‘s very useful set of tools. For example, consider working on a system, and needing one of Mark’s tools, but simply not having them readably accessible. In this case, all …
Authoritarian states just aren’t what they use to be
Did those dictators in the 30’s really make the trains run on time? The outside world’s view of the Chinese authoritarian state was frozen for decades in the images of the Cultural Revolution, when the slightest bit of dissent landed …
Why Shavlik went with Sunbelt
A nice note from Mark Shavlik, CEO of Shavlik, about our technology partnership. Alex Eckelberry





