I’ve been following Palo Alto as a networking company for a couple of years now. Their claim is that the days of the port-based firewall are dead and that their application-centric approach is a far better way to enforce your access controls. Take the HTTP protocol for example. HTTP typically runs as a service on […]
I was talking with my coworkers this afternoon about Time Warner’s plans to jack up rates for high-bandwith users and it got me thinking about how much of their precious bandwith I am actually using. I know that my router at home has a web browser interface where I can get that information, but I […]
As I’m preparing to take my trip to New York for the OWASP AppSec Conference, I came across a timely article on the risks involved with using a hotel network. The Center for Hospitality Research at Cornell University surveyed 147 hotels and then conducted on-site vulnerability testing at 50 of those hotels. Approximately 20% of […]
