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What happened to Interop?
I went to Interop today (not Friday 9/22 like I initially posted) and was very disappointed. Maybe it was the venue but the turnout from both vendors and people roaming the floor seems way off. I was working a booth for last years Interop in Las Vegas. There was a hell of a lot more [...]
Continue reading...Mozilla Up’s and Down’s
15. September 2006
It’s been an interesting few days for Mozilla. Code analysis vendor Klockwork analyzed the Mozilla Firefox source and found “655 defects and 71 potential security vulnerabilities.” using their K7 product. That post drew a large number of comments, in part due to the analysis being picked up by Slashdot. As it turns out this was [...]
Continue reading...HP Chairwoman spies on board members
6. September 2006
Patricia Dunn (HP’s Chairwoman) hired and authorized a team of “electronic-security experts) to spy on board members for the month of January 2006. This was in response to board level strategy information being leaked to CNET. What I find amazing is that the scope of this spying program covered board members home and personal [...]
Continue reading...IBM buys ISS for $1.3 Billion
23. August 2006
IBM announced today that they are acquiring ISS for $1.3 Billion dollars. This comes out to a $2 per share premium at $28. The big question in my mind is what are they going to do with ISS. IBM hasn’t exactly been pushing their security products for some time. ISS has seemed to be focusing [...]
Continue reading...Over reliance on industry analysts
4. August 2006
For several years now I have been involved with security industry analyst firms like Gartner, Forrester, Yankee and Tolly Group. These firms sell their opinions and analyses of products to companies looking to purchase technology products. They also provide market analysis / forecasts, trade shows and sometimes product “guidance” to vendors, all for a fee. [...]
Continue reading...Security Vendors in the crosshairs
2. August 2006
The past 7 days or so have been painful for security vendors, particularly IPS vendors. Several prominent security vendors were reported to have vulnerabilities of varying severities. Here is a quick breakdown from Secunia: TippingPoint secunia.com/advisories/21154/ TopLayer secunia.com/advisories/21218/ ISS [...]
Continue reading...Major flaw in Diebold voting machine
2. August 2006
This is a prime example of security not being given proper attention during the design / implementation phases…in my opinion. The Open Voting Foundation took apart a Diebold electronic voting machine and documented this with pictures. During their analysis they found that flicking a switch inside the device would allow it to boot from an [...]
Continue reading...Personal info lost on 540,000 New Yorkers
26. July 2006
The NY State Workers Compensation Board has reported that a computer containing the personal information (including SSN) has been lost by a contractor. The missing computer was in a “Secured” facility owned by CS Stars, an information brokerage. This is getting old…really old. Back a couple months ago I received letters from Hotels.com and the [...]
Continue reading...- Record IM video on the network?
- ICANN shutting down a Chinese registrar?
- New blog theme
- Twitter + Security = Security Twits
- WoW adds 2 factor authentication
- Security for Web Meetings?
- New job for me :)
- Funny comment Spam
- Shoot yourself in the foot in any language
- NAC Panel Discussion: What is the state of NAC?
- Your favorite Mac apps? (8)
- Is Data Leak Prevention the next "big thing" in security? (6)
- Should I renew my CISSP? (5)
- NAC Panel Discussion: What is the state of NAC? (5)
- NitroSecurity files for IPO (5)
- Whitedust.net called it quits? (5)
- Over reliance on industry analysts (4)
- VA loses another PC...36,000 at risk (4)
- Stopping 100% of web web proxies? (4)
- Juniper launches a switch line (4)
- NAC Panel Discussion: What is the state of NAC?
- Record IM video on the network?
- WoW adds 2 factor authentication
- ICANN shutting down a Chinese registrar?
- Savant Protection supports Google Android
- Detecting Bot Command and Control Channels
- (ab)using Tor to spy on connections
- Anyone still blocking Javascript?
- Two job openings at my company
- Backpack mounted Laser
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21. September 2006
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