- Incident Response 9 Convenient Lies in Information Security
Common security claims are often oversimplifications: encryption alone doesn't secure data, compliance doesn't address all necessary controls, security seals reflect limited scans, background checks...
- Malware 5 Events in 2011 That Challenged Online Security and Trust Assumptions
- Tools Design Information Security With Failure in Mind
Security controls will eventually fail despite best intentions—design architecture to detect suspicious activities early and limit incident scope when breaches occur. Like boats engineered to stay...
- Tools Process Hacker as an Alternative to Process Explorer and Task Manager
Process Hacker is an open source replacement for Task Manager and Process Explorer. It displays processes in a tree, color-codes debugged, service, and packed processes, shows network connections...
- Malware Using Netsh for Easier Network Setup in a Malware Lab
Windows' netsh tool can save and restore network configurations, useful for malware analysis labs that frequently switch between isolated segments and Internet-connected networks. Save configurations...
- Malware Analysis 3 Free NirSoft Tools for Malware Analysis
Three NirSoft utilities complement Process Monitor for behavioral malware analysis: ProcessActivityView shows file system access with bytes read/written, RegFromApp monitors registry changes, and...