Amazon.com just published my five star review of SSH Mastery by Michael W. Lucas. From the review: This is not an unbiased review. Michael W. Lucas cites my praise for two of his previous books, and mentions one of my books in his text. I’ve also stat…
Bejtlich’s Take on RSA 2012
Last week I attended RSA 2012 in San Francisco. I believe it was my third RSA conference; I noted on my TaoSecurity News page speaking at RSA in 2011 and 2006. This year I spoke at the Executive Security Action Forum on a panel moderated by PayPal C…
Keep CIRT and Internal Investigations Separate
A recent issue of the Economist featured an article titled Corporate fraud: Mind your language — How linguistic software helps companies catch crooks. It offered the following excerpts: To spot staff with the incentive to steal (over and above the ob…
TaoSecurity Blog Wins Most Educational Security Blog
I’m pleased to announce that TaoSecurity Blog won Most Educational Security Blog at the 2012 Social Security Bloggers Awards. I attended the event held near RSA and spent time talking with a lot of security bloggers and security people in general. I…
How to Retrieve Clipboard History in Windows
Ever copied a code snippet or text from the web and forgot to paste it before you copied something else? So, wondering to know how to retrieve clipboard history? Well, all of us will have an experience of something like this where we want to desperatel…
Practical Malware Analysis Book Promotion
I’m very pleased to share news of an awesome new book titled Practical Malware Analysis by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig. The authors will present a Webinar on their book on Wednesday 29 February at 2 pm eastern. I was pleased to write the forewo…
I Want to Detect and Respond to Intruders But I Don’t Know Where to Start!
“I want to detect and respond to intruders but I don’t know where to start!” This is a common question. Maybe you have a new security role in an organization, or a new service or business in your current organization, or some other situation where yo…
Impressions: Network Warrior, 2nd Ed
Five years ago I reviewed the first edition of Network Warrior by Gary A. Donahue. Thank to O’Reilly I can post my “impressions” of the second edition of this great book. Although I read almost all of it, I am unable to post another review because Am…
Impressions: Windows Sysinternals Administrator’s Reference
Mark Russinovich and Aaron Margosis have written another awesome addition to the Microsoft Press catalog, Windows Sysinternals Administrator’s Reference. Per my policy, because I did not read the whole book I am only posting “impressions” here and not…
Impressions: The Tangled Web
Six years ago I reviewed Michal Zalewski’s first book, Silence on the Wire. Michal is a security researcher who has consistently created high-quality content for a very long time, so I was pleased to receive a review copy of his newest book The Tangle…
