I loved Mike Rothman’s title to his take on the Cisco IOS rootkit (original article here).
What about “everything is vulnerable” didn’t sink in?
Engadget is reporting some stats that households are increasingly dropping their landline phone service for mobiles only. For safety reasons, I highly recommend against this.
Blog War!!
It’s been a while since Alan and I got into it; I think we both appreciate a little healthy debate. As friends, we don’t really have to worry about offending each other or taking things out of context. Unless, of course, it will get us a laugh. In this case I think Alan is more confused than wrong.
Last night I had this recurring dream I seem to have a few times a year. It involves a plane crash, but not one that I’m on. The dream always changes, but in every case I’m out and about someplace, I look up and see a struggling plane, it crashes, and I rush over to help. The dream almost always end before I do anything, and since I’m no longer a field medic portions of it usually involve me figuring out how I can help. Must be my overblown, currently unused hero complex or something. Never…
Hot on the heels of my GRC is Dead post, an associate sent me a private rant on a past experience where the investors drove his company down a similar rathole.
Martin and I were all over the map this week, but still managed to keep things under 30 minutes. We talk about the Dave and Buster’s hack, data exposure in Chile, and browser virtualization, among other things. The show is up over at netsecpodcast.com.
If you didn’t catch the news today, Tenable is changing the Nessus license and enabling the real-time signature/plugin feed for the free version. Martin and I managed to snag Ron Gula for a short interview we posted over at NetSecPodcast.com.
I have to admit, I don’t really understand greedy desperation. Or desperate greed. For example, although I enjoy having a decent income, I don’t obsess about the big score. Someday I’d like a moderate score for a little extra financial security, but I’m not about to compromise my lifestyle or values to get it. As a business I know who my customers are and I make every effort to provide them with as much value as possible.
Ah, Monday. And not just the usual Monday, but a Monday after a perfect 5-day trip with my wife to Sonoma. A Monday where, right after we get back, the hot water heater in our old house (that we now rent) dies. Sigh. I really don’t like this whole “real world” thing.
This Thursday I’ll be giving a webcast for Core Security on Integrating Web Applications into Your Vulnerability Management Program.
You can register for it over here at WhiteHatWorld.com, and here’s the description: