Archive for April, 2009

TweetThe bsdconferences YouTube Channel just posted a hour-long talk by Richard Bejtlich, one of my favorite Network Security Professionials.  It is a talk recorded from a recent BSD conference, and is, in the words of Bejtlich, “In this presentation I’ll discuss my latest thinking on using FreeBSD to identify normal, suspicious, and malicious traffic in [...]

TweetAs I alluded to in my previous post, putting in an actual firewall in my home network (instead of the soho linksys “firewall”), was the first step in my plans for World Domination.   I now reveal my second step:   To build a home-server worthy of my use.  I have just finished buying the [...]

TweetWith my fascination with FreeBSD and Information Security, it was only natural for me to get excited about pfSense, a “free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD tailored for use as a firewall and router. In addition to being a powerful, flexible firewalling and routing platform, it includes a long list of related features and [...]