J's Blog (5)

In today's world, keeping track of the ever growing amount of information becomes more and more important. The problem that seems to be occuring is that everyone has access to all sorts of information they find interesting and want to keep that information somewhere. While file servers are great for storage, it is important that they are only used to store what is necessary by the owner. Today's syst

I remember starting out as an intern (not all that long ago it feels, but still). The idea that I could actually do something to affect hundreds or thousands of people a day seemed amazing. I started out doing little things of course, but suddenly realized that the company I worked for made it over complicated to get anything done. The complication was security. I of course understood the nee

I admit right away that biology is not my specialty. I'm a computer person and studying cells was never as appealing as packet sniffing. However, thanks to my friends I know a good bit about it (more than I'd like), and it amazes me just how much it is like computing. Both try to find specific ways in either without notice (computing - backdoors, biology - simple contact/breath

It's been my experience that there are always new ways to get information from different people. Obviously one of the more intrusive ways is to actively sniff account information and copy it for your own needs. It is important to understand how this works so you know what risks you take in a store and just how simple it can be. These day

So the world seems to have Botnet fever. Ever since I heard about the people who finally found a way to kill zombie computers by taking them over and cleaning them I have heard nothing more than the wonders of botnets, and how such a network could cure all our horrible brute force attack issues. While I see how the theory is nice, the practice seems a bit... large