The Threat of Bots and Botnets

Twelve cyber security veterans, with significant knowledge about emerging attack patterns, worked together to compile a list of the attacks most likely to cause substantial damage during 2008. Participants included Stephen Northcutt, Ed Skoudis, Marc Sachs, Johannes Ullrich, Tom Liston, Eric Cole, Eugene Schultz, Rohit Dhamankar, Amit Yoran, Howard Schmidt, Will Pelgrin, and Alan Paller. [...]

Microsoft to Push IE7 to Desktops Feb 12

InfoWorld is reporting that Microsoft will push IE 7 to public desktops via WindowsUpdate next month (February 12), regardless of whether or not it had been previously requested by the user. Microsoft is rolling out IE7 to all desktops as a response to mounting security fears. In order to reach the broadest of applicability, IE7′s [...]

Is There a Future for Public Radio?

On the first week of February, my local public radio station for Oregon Public Broadcasting will begin their quarterly fund drive. This is where they interrupt regularly scheduled programs like NPR’s Morning Edition to beg for money. At this time of year, I struggle to understand the public broadcasting business model. Per their own admission, [...]

Safeguarding Against Websites That Exploit Browser Vulnerabilities

Twelve cyber security veterans, with significant knowledge about emerging attack patterns, worked together to compile a list of the attacks most likely to cause substantial damage during 2008. Participants included Stephen Northcutt, Ed Skoudis, Marc Sachs, Johannes Ullrich, Tom Liston, Eric Cole, Eugene Schultz, Rohit Dhamankar, Amit Yoran, Howard Schmidt, Will Pelgrin, and Alan Paller. [...]

Explained: Zero-Day Vulnerability

Explained: Zero-Day Vulnerabilities A zero-day vulnerability is the time from when a threat is released to the time that software manufactures can release patches and updates. Viruses and other forms of malware are released and distributed, and because they are not within an antivirus definition, they are not seen by the antivirus utility. Zero-day vulnerabilities [...]

Let Them Eat Cake: $99 PC’s

Last week at the Consumer Electronics Show vendors were ready to show off their new PC’s boxes (literally) that start at $99. Shuttle’s $99 and $199 KPC Linux machine (pictures shown here). Asus’ Eee PC Everex’s Cloudbook and gPC Generally speaking, these are machines with a small form factor, a dual-core processor, a 128mb video [...]