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	<title>Marcos Christodonte II - Information Security Blog</title>
	<link>http://christodonte.com</link>
	<description>A few words about information security</description>
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		<title>Researchers Display Rootkit Capability on Smartphones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rutgers just posted a news release about malware research against smartphones. The Professor and student researchers discussed how their rootkits could &#8220;eavesdrop on a meeting, track its owner’s travels, or rapidly drain its battery to render the phone  useless.&#8221; They were able to send &#8220;invisible&#8221; text messages to the infected phone, activating the rootkit, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christodonte.com/2010/02/researchers-display-rootkit-capability-on-smartphones/</link>
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		<title>Employees, Questions, and Business Risk&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reading an article today by Jay Forte about having a value discussion with your employees. The article was quite interesting, and as I read it, I thought about how his guidance also applied to security. Jay outlined what managers could tell their employees to help them add value to their organizations. Part of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christodonte.com/2010/02/employees-questions-and-business-risk/</link>
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		<title>Excerpt of Cyber Within</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had a few requests for an excerpt of my book, Cyber Within, so I&#8217;ve decided to post one online. Here&#8217;s the link: Cyber Within Excerpt
Enjoy!
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		<link>http://christodonte.com/2010/01/excerpt-of-cyber-within/</link>
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		<title>Cyber Within is Now Available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a busy few weeks! Just wanted to let everyone know that my new book, Cyber Within, is now available at Amazon.com
Q. Why did I write Cyber Within?
A. I wrote Cyber Within to provide employees with an interesting guide to help them understand cyber and insider threats. The book is meant to provoke thought [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christodonte.com/2010/01/cyber-within-my-new-book-is-now-available/</link>
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		<title>All Versions of IE Vulnerable to Zero-day Attack?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you haven&#8217;t heard, there&#8217;s been a zero-day attack against several big companies such as Google, Adobe, and others. The reports and chatter all started when Google reported that they might be taking another approach in conducting operations in China. I think this statement dropped a few jaws, &#8220;In mid-December, we detected a highly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christodonte.com/2010/01/all-versions-of-ie-vulnerable-to-zero-day-attack/</link>
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		<title>IP Address Spoofing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In everyday conversation, we tend to use language that is foreign to others around us. While people sometimes give us a head nod, or say “uh huh,” they don’t always know what we’re talking about. Frankly, their body language tells the true story, especially when they display the “thousand mile stare,” or confused facial gesture. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christodonte.com/2009/12/ip-address-spoofing/</link>
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		<title>Best practices for (small) botnets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out my new article at SearchSecurity.com where I outline Best practices for (small) botnets.
Short excerpt:
Recent large-scale botnet events, such as those used to disrupt Twitter and  Facebook, have been highly publicized in the news. While these high-profile  security events have been hard to miss, it&#8217;s the smaller, stealthier botnet  attacks that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christodonte.com/2009/12/best-practices-for-small-botnets/</link>
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		<title>CISCO to launch iPhone App</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CISCO is preparing to launch a new security iPhone App. According to their website, the &#8220;Cisco® SIO To Go, an Apple iPhone application that puts the power of the Cisco Security Intelligence Operations (SIO) in users&#8217; hands, giving them real-time access to a wealth of actionable global security information no matter where they are. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christodonte.com/2009/11/cisco-to-launch-iphone-app/</link>
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		<title>Printer Diving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had an interesting conversation this week. A gentlemen told me that he frequently sees things on printers that are of interest to him. It&#8217;s understandable that people often print new diagrams, Org charts, or special project material that others may find interesting. Nothing out of the ordinary there&#8230; However, he went further and said [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christodonte.com/2009/11/printer-diving/</link>
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		<title>Gone Facebook Phishing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The folks at Appriver recently reported that attackers have started a serious campaign against Facebook users. According to their reports, the botnet is sending over 500 phishing messages per second. And get this, along with stealing your Facebook credentials, the botnet prompts unsuspecting users to download what appears to be an &#8220;update.&#8221; What the user [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christodonte.com/2009/11/gone-facebook-phishing/</link>
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