Aside from our mutual admiration society with Adam and the New School folks, clearly we as an industry have suffered because we don’t share data, or war stories, or shared experience, or much of everything. Hubris has killed security innovation. We, as an industry, cannot improve because we don’t learn from each other.
I think I need to ban Mike from Arizona.
Scratch that – from a hundred mile radius of me.
A couple weeks ago he was in town so we could do our 2012 Securosis strategic planning. He rotates between my screaming kids and Adrian’s pack ‘o dogs, and this was my turn to host. We woke up on time the next morning, hopped in my car, and headed out to meet Adrian for breakfast and planning.
Before we get to the Incite we should probably explain why it’s a day late. Like many other sites we have huge issues with PIPA and SOPA, so we took down our site yesterday in protest. We don’t expect the big companies with big lobbying budgets to give up, so we need to keep the pressure on. Copyright holders have a right to protect their content, but not at the cost of our freedom and liberty. Period. Now back to our regularly scheduled pot stirring.
I’m happy to report that we have finished the process description posts for the Malware Analysis Quant project. Not all of you follow our Heavy Feed (even though you should), so here is a list of all the posts.
A flaw in the Oracle database has been disclosed, whereby the Oracle System Change Number (SCN) – a feature that helps synchronize database events – outgrows its defined limits. The SCN is an ever-increasing sequence number used to determine the ‘age’ of data. It is incremented automatically by 16k per second to provide a time reference, and again each time data is ‘committed’ (written to disk). This enables transactions to be referenced to the second, and ordered within each second. As you…
We blacked out Securosis (mostly – it was a rush job) to protest SOPA, PIPA, and the future variants we are sure will appear now that everyone has targeted these two acronyms.
Is it that time already? Yep, it’s time to wrap up our series on Network-based Malware Detection. We started with the need to block malware more effectively on the perimeter, particularly because you know you have users who are not the sharpest tools in the shed. Then we discussed the different techniques involved in detecting malware. Finally we tackled location, assessing critically whether the traditional endpoint protection model has outlived its usefulness.
You’ve probably noticed we have not been doing a lot of blogging lately. Sorry about that – we’ll start back up with a bang very soon. This will be a very exciting year for Securosis – we have a bunch of projects in the pipe. I’ll be launching a re-start of the Database Activity Monitoring 2.0 series now that we have finally settled on the terminology and done sufficient research on the trends to actually convey what’s going on. Mike and I want to cover some Log Management topics, and I have a…
It’s almost RSA time again. Which means one very important thing: I need to finally post the review of the very slick TPM-based Windows bootable thumb drive Jeff Jones (@securityjones) gave me at RSA 2011. I have been promising him this review since last March, and it would be just too embarrassing to not get it done before RSA 2012. So here we go.
The winter holidays aggravate me. They are a consumption binge, and I know we all want a healthier global economy (which includes folks spending money they don’t have on things they don’t need) but it still irks me. I grew up modestly in a single-parent home, and we did stuff, but not a lot. We didn’t have the fancy things, which forced me to go out and earn whatever I’ve gotten.