[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.

Hey everyone, I just wanted to let you know that MANDIANT Highlighter v1.1.1 is released and ready to rock and roll! MANDIANT is proud to announce a new version of Highlighter (version 1.1.1).

Jason Luttgens and I were interviewed by Bret Padres and Ovie Carroll over at the CyberSpeak podcast regarding our log analysis tool, Highlighter. Take some time to listen if you’re interested — the interview begins at 18m 10s, though I recommend listening to the whole podcast because those guys are fun and their content relevant.

I’m almost back to DC from my trip to St Louis for the DoD Cyber Crime conference. In case you don’t already know, Jason Luttgens and I came here to finally release our visual log-analysis tool, Highlighter (www.mandiant.com/software/highlighter.htm). We received very positive feedback and we were even able to give our presentation twice, thanks to [...]