Click here to listen/download (09:03). Happy 50th Podcast to us! We celebrate our 50th edition with a special interview with Greg Garcia, Assistant Secretary for Cyber Security and Telecommunications at the Department of Homeland Security. Garcia is the first to hold this position as appointed by Secretary Michael Chertoff last fall. Original ...

Many times a UNC path does not work properly in a command line bat file. This is a hold over from DOS, a compromise to ensure backward compatibility. I have found a little known command (At least to me). Actually there are two of them. PUSHD, and POPD Call PUSHD with a ...

Microsoft MVP Sandi Hardmeier, warns of Winfixer aka ErorSafe malware being distributed via MSN Messsenger ads. This is a Must Read. Read the entire article at her blog Spyware Sucks. Digg This! Read more at ShadowPuterDude

I see two distinctions in the realm of security: security and illusion of security. An example for illusion of security is: you are asked to fill out forms that claim to protect your PII (Personally Identifiable Information), this gives an illusion that your PII is being protected, whether it is actually being protected is a ...

It is inevitable; you will run into some False Positive hits when using web application firewalls. This is not something that is unique to ModSecurity. All web application firewalls will generate false positives from time to time. The following information will help to guide you through the ...

One of the benefits of License Statistics is its flexibility: it’s modular, easy to use and easy to extend. Many of our customers have used License Statistics with a variety of scripts that help them get exactly the information they want from their license statistics data. One ...

Four Stanford professors have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Robert Gray, Mark Horowitz, Teresa Meng and Sebastian Thrun were among the 64 new members announced on February 9. Their election brings the number of Stanford academy members to 86 and one foreign associate. The NAE is ...

Here is an interesting one. I found a way to take the %date% environment variable, and turn it into a valid string for a filename - without any extra programs or scripts. For the longest time I used a little utility I created to do this. The problem with that is ...