In case you were thinking that Man In the Middle (MITM) attacks are a modern phenomenon unique to the internet, think again. Bruce Schneier has this article about Aspidistra. Aspidistra was a World War II man-in-the-middle attack. The vulnerability that made it possible was that German broadcast stations were mostly broadcasting the same content from [...]
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Old school MITM attack
Posted: November 30, 2008 in professional, securityTags: Aspidistra, Man In the Middle Attack, MITM, World War II
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7 Lessons SMBs can learn from big IT redux
Posted: November 30, 2008 in professional, securityTags: backup, firewall, IT, NAC, pc, SMB, standard, test plan, UNP, UTM, VoIP, VPN, windows
David Strom has an interesting article in Network World about 7 Lessons That SMBs Can Learn from Big IT. It’s basically sound and definitely worth checking out. But there are some important gotchas and caveats that didn’t make the cut. So I thought I’d just stuff in a few extra ideas and warnings into the [...]
