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Black Hat with Amazon.com–2011 Code Challenges I

As a part of my day job at Amazon, I get to spend time recruiting the brightest and the best of the world’s security professionals – especially those who are willing to move to Seattle, Virginia, Dublin or Bangalore. Every so often, we go out on the road to security conferences, and as well as being...

Posted to Tales from the Crypto by Alun Jones on Thu, Aug 4 2011
Filed under: Filed under: General Security, Programmer Hubris, What my wife knows, Alun's code, Security Awareness
2ndAuth released for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2

I’ve given some hints at what we’ve been working on lately, by my choice of article topics. Credential Providers have been my headache for a couple of months now, not least of which is because Microsoft haven’t quite provided all the working code they ought to have done for Windows Vista. Windows 7,...

Posted to Tales from the Crypto by Alun Jones on Tue, Jul 26 2011
Filed under: Filed under: General Security, What my wife knows, Alun's code, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7
Vulnerability Disclosure–Cheap, Fast, and Out of Control?

I’ve posted a few times before on vulnerability disclosure: Vulnerability in WFTPD Dealing in Vulnerabilities - Denying the Vendor Full Disclosure - how full is full? Sandi brings up the question of responsible disclosure. "Full Disclosure" and the vendor. Sometimes 'journalists'...

Posted to Tales from the Crypto by Alun Jones on Thu, Dec 16 2010
Filed under: Filed under: General Security, Programmer Hubris, What my wife knows, Alun's code, Security Awareness
Texas Imperial Software DefCon 18 challenge

I rarely write about my business on the blog here, and perhaps I should do so some more. I mentioned in the post earlier today of how I’d “hacked” my badge (“hacked” in the sense of “that’s not programming, that’s typing”) to display the Texas Imperial...

Posted to Tales from the Crypto by Alun Jones on Sat, Jul 31 2010
Filed under: Filed under: General Security, FTP, Miscellany - not security, What my wife knows, Alun's code
How FTP Data Connections Work Part 2 (OR: Fun With Port 20)

As we mentioned in the 1st part of this series , FTP is a more complex protocol than many, using one control connection and one data connection. A recap of the first post… In typical Stream Mode operation, a new data connection is opened and closed for each data transfer, whether that’s an upload, a...

Posted to Tales from the Crypto by Alun Jones on Tue, Jul 14 2009
Filed under: Filed under: General Security, FTP, What my wife knows, Alun's code
How FTP Data Connections Work Part 1 (OR: Don’t Open Port 20 in your Firewall!)

This will be the first of a couple of articles on FTP, as I’ve been asked to post this information in an easy-to-read format in a public place where it can be referred to. I think my expertise in developing and supporting WFTPD and WFTPD Pro allow me to be reliable on this topic. Oh, that and the fact...

Posted to Tales from the Crypto by Alun Jones on Thu, Jul 9 2009
Filed under: Filed under: General Security, FTP, What my wife knows, Alun's code, TCP/IP
FTP - Untrustworthy? I Don't Think So!

Lately, as if writers all draw from the same shrinking paddling-pool of ideas, I've noticed a batch of stories about how unsafe, unsecure and untrustworthy is FTP. SC Magazine says so. First it was an article in the print version of SC Magazine , sadly not repeated online, titled "2 Minutes...

Posted to Tales from the Crypto by Alun Jones on Tue, Jul 29 2008
Filed under: Filed under: General Security, FTP, What my wife knows, Alun's code
Vistafy Me.

I have a little time over the next couple of weeks to devote to developing WFTPD a little further. This is a good thing, as it's way past time that I brought it into Vista's world. I've been very proud that over the last several years, I have never had to re-write my code in order to make...

Posted to Tales from the Crypto by Alun Jones on Fri, Jul 11 2008
Filed under: Filed under: FTP, Windows Vista, What my wife knows, Alun's code, Windows Server 2008

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