Google tablet is the Nexus of rumors; Google Play for $199? #ITBW The Google...
Google tablet is the Nexus of rumors; Google Play for $199? #ITBW The Google tablet rumor will not die. Supposedly, ASUS is working with Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) on a Nexus tablet, possibly branded Google...
View Article#RSAC 2012: Themes & Misconceptions
Here it is, the aftermath of the biggest security conference of the year, and my mind is still reeling. There have already been several RSA-related posts from various other bloggers, but this is...
View ArticleCourt: 4 More Months for DNSChanger-Infected PCs
Millions of PCs sickened by a global computer contagion known as DNSChanger were slated to have their life support yanked on March 8. But an order handed down Monday by a federal judge will delay that...
View ArticleFebruary Packet Party – Or What I Didn’t Learn in High School
I had the opportunity last week to attend a “packet party” at NOVA-Labs.org, one of the newest local hackerspaces out in Reston. For those that aren’t familiar … a packet party is a challenge where...
View ArticleComing up: More great articles #HPIO...
Coming up: More great articles #HPIO UKhttp://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/UK-Edition-start-here/Coming-up-More-great-articles/ba-p/1848by +Richi Jennings, your humble editor
View ArticleDirty Little Secret: The Continous Fail of Information Security
Post RSA 2012, CNET’s Elinor Mills spills what may be the proverbial beans (at least as far as mainstream tech-media assumes those beans to be…) regarding the continuous failure of the information...
View ArticleM-Trends: The One Threat Report You Need to Read
Today is a big day. If you’ve followed us for a while you know that once a year we step back and take stock of what we’ve seen on the front lines battling targeted attacks. What is the advanced...
View ArticleIIS 500 errors leave clues in the log
Yesterday I was playing around with the validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="true" setting on IIS 7.5. To my surprise I got an empty response back, with no indication of what went wrong. Looking at...
View ArticleHead of Lulzsec Arrested
Sabu, the reported head of Lulzsec and pictured below, was arrested. But that's not all--apparently he's been working as an FBI informant. During the Lulzsec rampage last summer, some speculated that...
View ArticleWhat Does it Take to Become a Security Bad Ass?
Want to be a security bad ass yourself, then listen to the advice from the attendees of Security B-Sides.
View ArticleAcunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Version 8 build 20120305 released
The Acunetix Team is pleased to announce an updated build of the Web Vulnerability Scanner Version 8 (WVS 8). This new built includes new security checks for more vulnerabilities, bug fixes as well as...
View ArticleFlash Mob at RSA Conference
Check out this flash mob that broke out at a RSA Customer event at RSA Conference 2012!
View ArticleDon’t get lulzed – 3 tips for avoiding headline hysteria
Before everyone gets entirely too excited about the FBI "chopping the head off of LulzSec" - can I add a pinch of commentary? My friend Bill Brenner of CSO Magazine has the typically insightful...
View ArticleNitrozac and Snaggy: Driving Miss Siri
via the comic genius of Nitrozac and Snaggy at The Joy of Tech™
View ArticleIs security growing up? Business intelligence is a key; Sensage extends...
Enterprises “get” the value of information. They understand that they receive, generate and store staggering volumes of data, which has the potential to be leveraged as actionable intelligence. The...
View ArticleNotes on Sabu arrest
This post is just to jot down interest bits of info on the Sabu arrest. All the good stories with details appear in the first few hours, then the Internet fills up with crud, and I can no longer find...
View ArticleSecurity Myth Debunked
Note: I had written this before RSA but did not have a chance to post. So a bit late, but still relevant: Ellen Messmer over at Network World had a good article about 13 Security Myths that maybe you...
View ArticleLulzSec – Sabu taken down – leadership of LulzSec arrested
Turns out that Sabu, the leader of LulzSec, was arrested late last year and started working for the FBI since they threatened to take his kids away. Senior leaders of the group were arrested today. The...
View ArticleBurnout
I feel fortunate I’m not haunted by the images of what I’ve witnessed. If I don’t sleep well at night it’s due to stress at work or at home, not the darker images from the years I spent working in...
View ArticleAnd The Winner Is …. Tripwire Enterprise!
SC Magazine held their annual awards gala last week in San Francisco, in which they announced the best and brightest of 2012′s IT security and compliance solutions. (Basically the Academy Awards of IT...
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