The blogoshpere is kind of funny sometimes as we all run around referencing each other constantly, so you’ll have to excuse the “my sister’s best friend’s 2nd cousin twice removed’s boyfriends bookie” path for this post. (Actually, I really dig all our cross referencing, I think it creates a cool community of experts).
Jim over at DCS Security (a great new blog) just finished his last in a series of good posts on security layers.
Anton Chuvakin eviscerates me here for claiming there are very few 0days (what Shimel is starting to call Less than Zero Days).
Alan Shimel is reviving the zero day debate and coins a term “less than zero day” for vulnerabilities that are unknown from the public at large. Check out his series starting here, then here, and finally here. Rothman mostly agrees here, but (like me) isn’t enamored of the name.
John Girard (a coworker) sent me this.
I sometimes criticize vendors for bad practices. This is the opposite- taking customer service well beyond the customer’s expectations *[Email:]: Email *[Twitter:]: Twitter *[Phone:]: Phone
Arthur over at Emergent Chaos posted an amusing story on an organization’s reason for switching to Macs.
It’s security. Just not necessarily what we mean when we say Macs are more secure.
A little birdie pointed me to the latest post over at the Metasploit blog.
For those of you that don’t know, Metasploit is the best thing to hit penetration testing since sliced bread. To oversimplify, it’s a framework for connecting vulnerability exploits to payloads. Before Metasploit it was a real pain to convert a new vulnerability into an actual exploit. You had to figure out how to trigger the vulnerability, figure out what you could actually do once you took advantage of the…
Before I delve into this topic I’d like to remind readers that I’m a Mac user and Apple fan. We are a 2 person, 2 Mac, 3 iPod, 2 Airport Express household, with another Mac in the plans this spring. By the same token I don’t think Microsoft is evil and consider some of their products to be quite good. That said I prefer OS X and have no plans to switch to Vista, although I’ll probably run it in a virtual machine on my Mac.
I’ve noticed a marked decrease in the customer service from my phishers. Lately spam messages have been originating from “On-line Bank” and other generic addresses. Spelling mistakes are returning, and links no longer even pretend to go to a real bank’s site.
Stiennon covered the McAfee/Onigma deal over at Threat Chaos this weekend. Although I knew about the deal I try and avoid vendor/industry coverage here at Securosis, and, to be honest, it really isn’t worth covering. (Onigma is tiny and agent based, not really the direction the market is heading, and by the time McAfee integrates the tech they’ll be WAY behind the ball).