Re: Water Utility SCADA 'Attack': The, um, washout

2011-11-27 Thread Jerry Dixon
There is already a law on the books called Protected Critical Infrastructure Information (PCII). It has stiff penalties for leaking the information. The reporting critical infrastructure company has to request the information or report be protected under PCII. In most cases the companies also

Re: Possible New Zero Day Microsoft Windows 3389 vulnerability - outbound traffic 3389

2012-01-13 Thread Jerry Dixon
Another possibility is the use of this tool as well: http://www.sensepost.com/labs/tools/pentest/reduh (Reduh) Jerry je...@jdixon.com On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Mark Keymer wrote: > Hi, > > We have had 2 of the below hit us this week. First time was apx 11:20am > 1/10/2012 (PST). The 2

Re: U.S. spy agencies ... email for cybersecurity

2012-07-11 Thread Jerry Dixon
It's more of a strategy to centralize protection efforts versus using a de-centralized approach. I want go into the scalability issues and also "scope" creep aspects however, as Chris points out, it would be far better to share indications & warnings with organizations that can leverage their own

RE: Hurricane season starts June 1: Carriers harden networks

2008-05-27 Thread Jerry Dixon
Jared nailed it on the head. It is absolutely critical to get to know who your State JFO POC is, State EOC POC, and have the National Communication Systems Hotline on speed dial or at least in your cell. They can help facilitate needs such as getting human resources from your company or mutual ai

Policy News

2009-11-18 Thread Jerry Dixon
If you can make it they can tax it :/ Article in today's Wall Street Journal: "WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators are considering whether the government should take greater control of the Internet and ask consumers to pay higher phone charges in order to provide all Americans with cheaper access to

Re: Policy News

2009-11-18 Thread Jerry Dixon
placed copper cable in the middle of the winter last > year, it would have made more sense to just use the conduit they were > replacing and put fiber in. > > But the fiber union guys != copper union guys so that is harder to do. > > Oh well, stuck in the 70's with my ISDN. > &