Andrew Martin

Just a quick reminder that the webcast for my paper “Mobile Device Forensics” will be taking place at 1pm EDT today. See my previous blog post for more information.

Lets delve a little deeper into the Osirys IRC bot which I initially discussed in part 1. First I will illustrate how the attacker finds and exploits web servers, then I will discuss how ISPs can get involved and remove these bots from their networks.
First the attacker issues a command to the bot to begin [...]

Well, looks like my 4 month odyssey is coming to an end about a week early due to the Swine Flu. I am currently in Cancun, Mexico and with all the news coming out about flights being canceled and public gathering places being closed, I’ve decided to take up the offer from my airline to [...]

The move of the blog to the new domain and web host is now complete. Now I’ll be able to admin every portion of the site and have much more control. I have also placed ads on the site in the hopes of covering some of my hosting costs.
The site’s page rank has suffered unfortunately [...]

I have decided to change my webhosts in order to provide a better experience to my readers and to re-brand the blog under my own name. I started this blog with a wordpress.com account as a trial and I’ve been very pleasantly surprised by the feedback and interest the blog has received. So to get [...]

Traveling has been keeping me pretty out of the loop, but I happened to stumble on the Social Security Awards contest where the winner will be announced at the RSA conference this year. Needless to say,  I would appreciate your votes in the Best Technical Security Blog area.
Vote here:  http://www.socialsecurityawards.com/
I shall resume regular updates in [...]