So the war between the miscreants and the first responders / incident responders is just that - it's a war with casulaties (servers, workstations, work life / home life balance) and it is complete with an arms race in the form of stealthing (miscreants...

Okay - so here is my analysis of a recent WINS hack a customer experienced. The customer caught this by analyzing their netflow data from their routers . . . they suddenly started sending tremendous amounts of packet love and affection to various IP's...

I've gotten some really great feedback on my blog now that I'm actually blogging about incident response topics - I appreciate the feedback, keep it coming! So we here in PSS Security are tied into the security incident response community fairly well...

So I'm getting some 'interesting' and frankly un-expected comments on my most recent 'Anatomy of . . . ' posts where I delve into examples of a hack involving certain vulnerabilities (one of which wasn't even in one of our products I'd like to point out...

So it seems that there is a new MySQL bot that is spreading to Windows machines running MySQL with weak SA (or whatever MySQL's equivalent is) passwords. You can read more about it here http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5553570.html and here: http:/...

At long last - a blog post about Incident Response in the self-proclaimed 'Incident Response' blog! Before I finally crash for the night there are two things I wanted to bring to the attention of folks interested in Windows IR that my team has come across...

Okay so this post is several months late - what can I say, I'm easily distracted and overly busy. Hopefully if you are reading this post you've already read the post on hacker personas. Having been on the PSS Security team for over three years now I've...

My last blog post was about miscreant hiding techniques . . . unfortunately one can probably write a book devoted to some of the more popular techniques . . . I'm just going to blog from time to time about the ones my team is encountering (call it miscreant...