Security Week in Review (2008-07-13)
Security Circus By far the most entertaining story from last week was Linus giving a few choice quotes. He does get some things right, but there's still the very real fact that security flaws let...
View ArticleSecurity Week in Review (2008-07-28)
Last week wasn't very exciting as far as security issues go. I have nothing of interest to note. Next week should be quite busy though. Black Hat and DEFCON are going on in Las Vegas. Things are...
View ArticleSecurity Week in Review (2009-02-01)
Wow, I've been lazy this 2009. So here goes my first blog entry of the year. Encryption Security With all the recent talk of encrypting hard drives, the cold boot method, and using proper passwords,...
View ArticleSecurity Week in Review (2009-02-08)
Is Open Source Software Secure? This week there was a story posted to Slashdot titled How To Argue That Open Source Software Is Secure?. Quoting the post: ... saying that they were warned that they...
View ArticleSecurity Week in Review (2009-02-22)
Open Source Security One of the dead horses that various security folks like to beat is claiming that Open Source software is less secure because anyone can look at it and analyse its security...
View ArticleSecurity Week in Review (2009-03-22)
Firefox Emergency On Friday, a new version of Firefox was released. The number of hours that went into this event are amazing to even consider. For most of the week, there were various groups working...
View ArticleSecurity Week in Review (2009-03-29)
April Fools! Probably the biggest not story this week was the Conficker Worm not ending the world on April 1. From a security perspective, designing the worm to activate on April 1 was brilliant. The...
View ArticleSecurity Week in Review (2009-04-12)
Malicious Activity grows in 2008 2008 Saw a surge in malicious code activity: http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=7311 This is a disturbing trend, and for the underground, this is easy money....
View ArticleSecurity Week in Review (2009-05-17)
Things have been rather slow as of late, which is nice, as they were painfully busy previously. Cloudy Trust? CIO.com has a nice article that points out some of the probably flaws in cloud computing:...
View ArticleSecurity Week in Review (2009-05-24)
About the only thing I've found worth mentioning from last week is about the fabled United States "Cybersecurity Coordinator", or some other fancy word people keep kicking around....
View ArticleSecurity Week in Review (2009-05-31)
.ORG DNSSEC This week .ORG became the first TLD to sign their zone with DNSSEC: http://blog.pir.org/?p=349 This is sort of a big deal, as most everyone agrees DNSSEC will happen in the future, but...
View ArticleSecurity Week in Review (2009-06-07)
Phrack 66 Phrack 66 came out this week. If you're not aware, Phrack is the longest running hacker zine, it's impressive that after more than 20 years, it's still going. Firefox 3.0.11 Yet another...
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Security Week in Review (2009-07-05)
Argh, it's been way too long, and I've been way too busy OpenSSH? I imagine everyone has heard of the OpenSSH scare this week. Most are still keeping ear to the ground, but it's likely just a vanish,...
View ArticleSecurity Week in Review (2009-08-09)
Linux Kernel privilege escalation The most interesting security story last week was probably a new kernel privilege escalation flaw. If you simply run something like a single user desktop machine,...
View ArticleSecurity Week in Review (2009-08-16)
Pidgin A new version of Pidgin came out last week. It fixes a potential issue where a remote MSN user could send a message that could execute arbitrary code on a victim's computer. This could be...
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