I've been thinking about where I wanted to direct my focus within the networking industry of late. I've always been interested in security and privacy, so studying the Cisco Security pathway made sense. Working in a NOC type environment has a use for security, but it doesn't come up all that much past access lists, securing the router, VPN's and…
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The '60 Minutes' TV show recently had a presentation which documented staff from DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency), a U.S. based company, hacking a car. Conspiracy theorists (See: Michael Hastings) and automation driven industries are likely going to be very interested in these developments. Imagine what could be done, especially if these cars are connected globally like many 'Internet of…
The ASA firewall is not a great choice in dealing with a volumetric DDOS, but they can come in handy with an application layer attack, such as a common HTTP POST/GET request from the attacker. Within the ASA, you can filter certain strings that may come from an application layer payload using the regex command. The following link provides some insight into…