Last week the SBN died as Google decided to drop support for Feedburner groups during their transition of Feedburner to Google’s platform.
I swore that I was not going to cover data ‘breach’ events unless there was something that was really interesting or unique about it. There are too many and the general public has grown desensitized as the number of records and the overall number of breaches is, well, mind numbing. But this caught my eye as I think I may have taken photos of this house when it went back to the bank:
I realize this might shock our fair readers, but once upon a time I used to get my hands dirty with a little hands on web application development. Back in the heady early days of the mid-1990’s Internet I accidentally transitioned from a systems and network administrator to a web application developer and DBA at the University of Colorado’s Graduate School of Business. It all started when I made the mistake of making an incredibly ugly home page for the school, complete with a tiled background…
Well, they’ve finally done it. Microsoft announced they will be dropping OneCare and start providing antivirus for free to all Windows users late next year in a product called Morro.
Brian Krebs posted a follow up article on the takedown of fraudulent hosting provider McColo (facilitated by his initial reporting last week). If you think all the nasties out there are hosted in Russia or China, you should really read his article.
I kind of get a chuckle from articles like this recent series at Dark Reading on phishing, spam and malware. First came the contradictory posts, both posting that Phishing Attacks are reaching record highs, while simultaneously trumpeting that the king of spam and botnets had been shut down. I don’t suppose it dawned on the editors that if the channel that conveys the phishing attacks is “shut down”, then we are not likely to see “Record Highs.”
Here’s a valuable lesson for you college students out there, from Dave Meizlik: if your professor is married to one of the leads at a DLP vendor, think twice before plagiarizing a published dissertation.
Edited: I stupidly credited Nate Lawson for Mark Dowd’s work with Sotirov. Dumb mistake, and I apologize.
Since my travel is slowing down a bit, I’m finally able catch up a little on my reading. Two articles this week reminded me of something I’ve been meaning to talk about. First, Chris Wysopal talks about how we’ve reached an application security tipping point. How the OS vendors are doing such a (relatively) good job at hardening the operating system that it’s become easier and more…
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I have to say, Moscow was definitely one of the more interesting, and difficult, places I’ve traveled to. The city wasn’t what I expected at all- everywhere you look there’s a park or big green swatch down major streets. The metro was the cleanest, most fascinating of any city (sorry NY). I never waited more than 45 seconds for a car, and many of the stations are full of beautiful Soviet-era artwork.