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Hackers use twitter to control bots! The Zombies are coming!

by Chris Orr

So in all of the chaos that ensued when the pirates were attacking Twitter and facebook something new emerged. It turns out that many pirates have actually been using Twitter itself as a weapon. Previously IRC has been the way that hackers have controlled their bots. Now it seems that they have been crafting commands [...]

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Security and the Magic Bullet…

by Chris Orr

So…I am speaking to a customer today, and this actually happens quite often, when he mentions that he is looking for one tool that does everything from log analysis, to patch management and even change auditing and configuration assessment…a magic bullet if you will… Argh! Would a real Ninja go into battle with just one [...]

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RSA Day 4…The Ninjas are gone…bring in the vultures!

by Chris Orr

RSA is a long conference. Holy cow…day four was the final stretch of the marathon of security tracks and other talks. Virtualization was of interested to nearly everyone of course. At this point of the show though it was mostly roving bands of shirt hunters. It was almost like a scene from Mutual of Omaha…you [...]

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Day three at RSA and my feet hurt!

by Chris Orr

Man…this show never ends. Lots of interest these days around virtualization. A couple of conversations around our Config Check tool and OpsCheck tools. Wandered the show myself a little bit. Played a game of Whack-A-Fraudster. Scored a 39 which wound up being 3rd best for the day…probably should have had a little more Mountain Dew… [...]

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Day two…RSA and the surrounding hordes of Ninjas…

by Chris Orr

Holy moly…just when you think its safe to go back into the data center…there was a massive flood of IT Ninjas at the gates. You name it: security, compliance, operations…they all wanted a piece of Tripwire…or maybe it was just the t-shirts…you can never tell sometimes at events like this. Our rock star Gene Kim [...]

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RSA and the IT Ninja

by Chris Orr

Whoo boy…I am surrounded by IT Ninjas. Day one of the RSA conference in San Francisco has come and gone and the IT Ninjas were out in force. I was probably surrounded by more than a few Pirates as well but they didn’t make their presence known. Its always interesting to see who shows up [...]

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