Archive for:

31 January 2009

Security Folks: Let’s Not Forget The Dialup Users

Filed under: check point,security,software - 31 Jan 2009

Map of British East Africa in 1911. Image via Wikipedia

My friends at …

28 January 2009

Check Point Software’s Earnings Call and Nokia’s Security Appliance Business

Filed under: check point,networking,storage - 28 Jan 2009

Check Point Software, the company that is likely to employ me relatively soon, has announced their Q4 2008 earnings, and they were above analyst expectations. While you can read the press release for …

17 January 2009

Changing The Tagline

Filed under: blogging,nokia,phoneboy,security,software - 17 Jan 2009

For those of you who don’t visit phoneboy.com directly, you may not have noticed that I changed the site’s tagline to read: Simplifying Network Security, Telecom, Gadgets, and More! Previously, it read VoIP, …

5 January 2009

The Academy Home: Network Security for Normal Users

Filed under: security - 05 Jan 2009

HERZLIYA, ISRAEL - OCTOBER 26: A trainee at th... Image by Getty Images via …

23 December 2008

Coverage of Check Point Acquisition of Nokia’s Security Appliance Business

Filed under: business,security,software - 23 Dec 2008

As I write this, I am still a Nokia employee. Yesterday’s announcement did not change that, at least until the deal closes sometime in the next three months. Meanwhile, here are a few of the …

22 August 2008

Aircell Isn’t Blocking all Forms of VoIP

Filed under: business,connectivity,Services,travel,wifi - 22 Aug 2008

Andy made a big splash on Twitter (and throughout the blogosphere) when he announced that he had a call on an airplane thanks to Phweet. I, of course, don’t deny it happened, but …

30 April 2008

iSkoot for S60 Upgraded: Obscured by SSL

Filed under: security,software,voip - 30 Apr 2008

I will admit to not testing the “forced” upgrade aspect of this, but I did download and install the upgraded iSkoot for my Nokia N95 this …

28 April 2008

iSkoot Pulls S60 Build, Plans To Push Fix 30 April 2008

Filed under: mobile phones,security,software,voip - 28 Apr 2008

CIA Triad.Image via Wikipedia

While it was, admittedly, not very nice of me to hand iSkoot a …

27 April 2008

iSkoot Will Fix The Encryption Issue On Nokia S60 Client

Filed under: nokia,security,software,voip - 27 Apr 2008

Looks like iSkoot made a mistake with their Nokia S60 client and will make it right. Apparently a non-production version of the S60 client made it to the public web, which sends data in the clear. Other published versions of …

26 April 2008

Proof of iSkoot Passing Credentials In The Clear

Filed under: security,telecom,voip - 26 Apr 2008

Dan York asked for this. Here’s the tell-tale sign from tcpdump that the user information is in the clear. Obviously, I used a different username than my own here as obscuring my password was difficult:
10:29:56.656220 IP 10.3.2.124.43852 > 69.25.76.54.80: P …

« Previous PageNext Page »

Switch to our mobile site