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Anonymous Said To Be Unstoppable — But For The Wrong Reasons
Late on Friday afternoon, Nicole Perlroth of the New York Times posted a piece to the ‘Bits’ blog titled, “Anonymous Says It Knocked C.I.A. Offline”. Within the post, in reference to the latest...
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Patch Tuesday Valentine’s 2012
Microsoft released nine patches today, several designed to repair rather critical flaws. Don't get too distracted by the lack of chocolates and flowers, get patching!
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Translating IT risk to business risk: Symantec adds Risk Manager to IT GRC suite
IT governance, risk and compliance (GRC) is a challenge to every large organization struggling with the complexity of IT policies and controls and communicating IT risk to management in terms of actual...
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Is RSA key generation really worse than DH key generation?
There's an interesting paper available on the IACR's eprint server: "Ron was wrong, Whit is right," by Adi Shamir and others. Here's the abstract of this paper: We performed a sanity check of public...
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Better Late Than Later: Twitter Defaults To Tunneled Connection
Interesting news, focusing on tunneled connectivity to Twitter - apparently, the micro-blogging service has now flipped the bit, as it were, and defaults to a tunneled connection via SSL/TLS. Good...
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Patch Tuesday, Feb 2012: What I did this Valentine’s Day
I have to admit, poring over Microsoft Security Bulletins on Valentine’s Day, it tends to make you stop and think about where you’re at in life. I mean this is pretty awesome, sure beats last year...
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What’s On Your Patch List?
It's Patch Tuesday and nCircle's Vulnerability and Exposure Research Team (VERT) recorded their first monthly VERT Alert Live interactive discussion about today's security bulletins. If you missed the...
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Network Security Podcast, Episode 267
On this wonderful (?) Valentine’s Day, we are joined by guest-host and friend-to-the-show Michelle Klinger, while Rich is overcoming some throat-in-tube type illness (feel better, Rich!). Network...
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InfoSec Daily Podcast Episode 594
Episode 594 - SOCA, (Dis)TrustWave, Safe Browsing API, Better Chrome, Crimeversting, and Androidbmaster
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AwkwardCloud: Here’s Hopin’ For Open
MAKING FRIENDS EVERYWHERE I GO… There’s no way to write this without making it seem like I’m attacking the person whose words I am about to stare rudely at, squint and poke out my tongue. No, it’s not...
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Microsoft AV Flags Google.com as ‘Blacole’ Malware
Computers running Microsoft‘s antivirus and security software may be flagging google.com — the world’s most-visited Web site — as malicious, apparently due to a faulty Valentine’s Day security update...
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National and Corporate Security Concerns due to Nortel’s Hack
Could corporate espionage be the reason why a billion dollar firm lost its competitive edge and became bankrupt? Was the lack of perception that this was a significant threat by top executives a...
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SBN Sponsor Post
Get a sneak peak into RSA Conference 2012 with podcasts from industry experts and speakers.http://bit.ly/fmaLXU
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Anatomy of an Attack comes to Portland, OR
Anatomy of an Attack comes to Portland, OR (PDX) March 14, 2012. Learn about the latest security threats, see a live malware demo and more.
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Infosec bucket list
Just once I'd like to hear with my own ears see with my own eyes thefollowing then I'll die a happy "security purist":-A CISO who is more than a sacrificial lamb. To qualify their tenuremust be of a...
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Year Of Security for Java – Week 7 – Content Security Policy
What is it and why should I care? Content Security Policy (CSP) is a new(ish) technology put together by Mozilla that web apps can use as an additional layer of protection against Cross Site Scripting...
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Whitney Who?
What Happened To America’s Priorities? What Does It Say About Us When We Pay More Attention To Drug Addled Celebrities Than To Our Real Heroes? Shameful.
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An idea for future blog posts
I just realized that today is day that P. G. Wodehouse, arguably the best writer of humor that the Earth has seen in its several billion years of existence, died in 1975. As a member of The Wodehouse...
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