Remember our first post that there are no trusted sites? Followed by our second one? Now I suppose it’s time to start naming names in the post titles, since this seems to be a popular trend.
This will be our last Friday Summary for 2008. This afternoon Adrian and I are off to The Office for our Securosis Annual Staff Festivus Party (sorry Chris, but we can drunk dial you if that makes you feel included).
Looks like the RIAA has finally realized that treating customers like criminals isn’t the best strategy in the world. According to the Wall Street Journal (via Slashdot) they are ending their campaign of suing individual file sharers to focus on working with ISPs to reduce illegal sharing.
Just ran across this ‘new’ SQL Server vulnerability in my news feed. This should not be an issue because you should not be using this set of functions. If you are using external stored procedures on a production database, stop. In fact, you want to stop using them altogether by either locking them down or removing them entirely. Not just because of this reported instance. External stored procedures exploits are favorites of database hackers, and have been used to alter database functionality…
In our last episode, we continued our series on building a web application security program by looking at the secure development stage (see also Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5).
Tomorrow I’ll be giving the first webcast in a three part series I’m presenting for Oracle. It’s actually a cool concept (the series) and I’m having a bit more fun than usual putting it together. The first session is Database Security for Security Professionals. If you are a security professional and want to learn more about databases, this is targeted right between your eyes. Rather than rehashing the same old issues, we’re going to start with an overview of some database principles and how…
It came to my attention today that Business Management Magazine (www.busmanagement.com- not linked on purpose), part of GDS International, is using my name to sell sponsorship of their publication and some roundtable event at the RSA conference.
Just a quick note that I’ll be out in San Francisco for Macworld on January 5-8. While most of my time is dedicated to the conference, I will be able to take some meetings in the SF area. You can drop me a line at rmogull@securosis.com.
Bryan Sullivan’s thought-provoking post on Streamlining Security Practices for Agile Development caught my attention this morning. Reading it gave me the impression of a genuine generational divide. If you have ever witnessed a father and son talk about music, while they are talking about the same subject, there is little doubt the two are incompatible.
‘Doing some research on business justification stuff for several project Rich and I are working on. Ran across the Aberdeen Group research paper reference on the Imperva Blog,, which talks about business justification for database security spending. You can download a copy for free. It’s worth a read, but certainly needs to be kept in perspective.