May 28, 2007

More STUN & ICE

The Eyeball Firewall product has apparently implemeted STUN and ICE. They have a good explanation of the technology here.

May 23, 2007

Security Metrics dot org

If you have been to the RSA conference over the past couple of years you may have heard of a speaker named Andrew Jaquith from the Yankee Group (and prior to that one of the founders at security firm @stake). Andrew did a great presentation back at RSA 2005 that was about security vendors claims. It was a great presentation (luckily my company was not included). Andrew has been busy working on this Security Metrics dot org site and a conference called MetriCon.

May 22, 2007

Google Online Security Blog

The folks over at Google just launched an online security blog.

"Online security is an important topic for Google, our users, and anyone who uses the Internet. The related issues are complex and dynamic and we've been looking for a way to foster discussion on the topic and keep users informed. Thus, we've started this blog where we hope to periodically provide updates on recent trends, interesting findings, and efforts related to online security. Among the issues we'll tackle is malware, which is the subject of our inaugural post."


Home Firewall: Opening ports for XBox to PC communications

From XBox help and support: Xbox 360: Firewall ports that you must open when you connect an Xbox 360 console to a Windows Media Center-based computer. These rules are applied on a local (home) router between the XBox and the PC.

A separate article on Firewall rules that need to be modifed on the Windows Media PC itself (assumes ICF or otehr PC based Firewall).

May 20, 2007

Filering ICMP in IPv6

See RFC 4890 titled "Recommendations for Filtering ICMPv6 Messages in Firewalls".