I found this little gem waiting for me to approve. I get a bit of spam that Akismet doesn’t toss automatically, but this one struck me as an absolute failure to come across as human. It also struck me that Akismet didn’t toss this one automatically.. .:-\

Russ McRee over at HolisticInfoSec.org wrote a great article talking about Mandiant Highlighter that I and Jason Luttgens wrote. We just released a minor bug fix version, 1.1.3. Here’s the link. holisticinfosec.blogspot.com/2011/10/toolsmith-log-analysis-with-highlighter.html Here’s the link to the download: www.mandiant.com/products/free_software/highlighter/ Here’s a link to the forums: forums.mandiant.com/forum/highlighter

Highlighter v1.1.3 has been released. Check out the sweet blog post by yours truly over at blog.mandiant.com/.

[edit 2010-05-10] I posted this on my facebook account and received a well-deserved lambasting for up-voting the article.  I hadn’t thought hard enough on the problem of domain trusting with such a distributed, flexible, and multi-point service such as email.  Mat Whitney gave me a lesson on the difficulties of domain reputations when the domain [...]

My computer died… all of a sudden… for no apparent reason. My main home desktop is was Windows XP SP3.