Jon's Network

PhishGuru PhishGuru is an email-based anti-phishing training system in which training messages are designed to look like phishing messages.

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A cursory web search will show you many end users that perceive better performance using Firefox for MobileMe hosted websites instead of Apple’s own Safari browser. My wife uses iWeb to maintain the family website. A couple of weeks ago, the comments stopped working. I figured it was just another MobileMe problem and planned on [...]

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MetricsCenter Articles Stuff to read on security metrics.

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Alex’s post got me thinking about reputation. Companies think they own their reputation, but in reality they don’t. A reputation is the aggregate of the popular opinion about you. Opinions, or thoughts, belong to an individual, true or not, and a company doesn’t own a person’s thoughts, therefore a company doesn’t own its reputation. QED. [...]

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Google Search from Quicksilver| Macintosh Tutorials, News, and Reviews A useful trick that takes 30 seconds to set up.

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Ya, there are other IT vendors on YouTube (StillSecure, Lumension, Sophos), but so far only Palo Alto has tried to be funny. Here’s to going viral:

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A customer recently evaluated Brightmail, Fortimail 400 and Barracuda 600. They said Barracuda would have been great had it been the only one they tested, since the reporting impressed them, but they noticed the poor catch-rate once they tested Brightmail and Fortimail. Fortimail ended up winning the deal. Spam filtering – Barracuda detection rates were [...]

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Lynne Kiesling at Knowledge Problem imagines a refrigerator that is not only a kitchen appliance but also a network appliance. By equipping refrigerators with an IP address and a web interface we could tell them to do things like ordering a new filter from a specified vendor at the appropriate time. Where it gets interesting [...]

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LUMENSION “THE OFFICE” GAME Some clever marketing by Lumension….it took me forever to find #8. Lack of vulnerability management.

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Computer Defense has a Denial of Service Survey to research people’s perception of it.

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