There has been a promising shift in the tech industry, with major companies pledging to release products with built-in security features. This development aims to address the increasing cybersecurity threats individuals and organizations face.
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Blue Security may have been forced to close because of denial of service attacks from spammers, but the internet community is determined to carry on its work.
Portland, Oregon is the unlikely capital of a global software revolution. The revolution is called Open Source. And its leader? Linus Torvalds, the reclusive founder of Linux.
Linux is the free software code developed by a global community of programmers. It's also the world's fastest growing operating system and number two behind Microsoft.
The e-Crime Congress 2006 will seek to challenge conventional attitudes on e-Crime and examine how business, government and law enforcement can continue to work together in order to tackle a threat that undermines public confidence in the Internet as a viable and secure commercial medium for the future.
The presentation I gave in Washington, D.C., at Black Hat Federal Conference in January 2006. It's about new generation of stealth malware, so called Stealth by Design (SbD) malware, which doesn't use any of the classic rootkit technology tricks, but still offers full stealth! The presentation also focuses on limitations of the current anti-rootkit technology and why it’s not useful in fighting this new kind of SbD malware. Consequently, alternative method for compromise detection is advocated in this presentation, Explicit Compromise Detection (ECD), as well as the challenges which Independent Software Vendors encounter when trying to implement ECD for Windows systems.
A new professional body for information security professionals launched today (Monday 27 February) will help raise the standards of IT security across the UK, leading employers have said. The Institute for Information Security Professionals has won backing from major UK firms, which plan to use it as a benchmark for hiring IT security staff.
A panel discussion involving a group of experts held during DEMO ‘06 in Phoenix last week concluded that the state of security today is not where it should be. But the panelists also had suggestions on how to improve it.
During the conference, which is owned by Network World, former IBMer and consultant John Patrick called together a panel of industry and academic figures to try to answer the question, “Will the good guys be able to stay ahead of the bad guys?
According to our recent Security Staffing survey, IT security executives believe their organizatons are in greater jeopardy due to staffing shortages than their peers that oversee corporate security. Additionally, IT uses flex time and training as a motivator more so than corporate security executives. Corporate security organizations outsource more than IT security departments and the most frequently outsourced positions were security guards and guard management, while IT security were more likely to outsource data back up and biometrics.
Well, we’ve come to the end of my Shmoocon 2006 coverage. The conference wasn’t all presentations though, there were a lot of other fun activities:
The Hacker Arcade featured arcade games that had been modified to generate USB tokens that you could later redeem for prizes. The folks at 757.org modified a skill crane so that it could be controlled from the web. Of course, toys like this at a hacker convention spawned some creative solutions. David Rhodes scripted the skill crane’s web interface so that it would try every possible coordinate pair and ended up with an armful of prizes. Another attendee discovered that the USB tokens weren’t case sensitive and generated a couple hundred thousand prize tokens.
The purpose of this site is to organize a social networking event for geeks in Louisville and surrounding areas. The geek dinner concept came from listening to London Geek Dinner podcasts. London Geek Dinners have attracted crowds over 175. Hopefully we can pull strong numbers in Louisville.
Who is invited, and what does it mean to be a geek? Wikipedia defines geek as the following, "a person who is fascinated, perhaps obsessively, by obscure or very specific areas of knowledge and imagination." The simple fact is that we love technology. We need a social event where everyone speaks our language for a change. All geeks are invited. Please encourage your geek friends to Signup. The best way to ensure that you will have a good time is to invite other geeks that you know.
NSPW is a unique workshop that is devoted to the critical examination of
new paradigms in security. Each year, since 1995, we examine proposals
for new principles upon which information security can be rebuilt from
the ground up. We conduct extensive, highly interactive discussions of
these proposals, from which we hope both the audience and the authors
emerge with a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of
what has been discussed.
Infosecurity Europe 2006 is just around the corner. Taking place at the Olympia in London 25-27 April 2006, it is the most important gathering of security professionals in Europe. At the press conference in London earlier this week, we were introduced to last year’s statistics as well as information about the 2006 conference with many presentations.
Linux supporters have roundly criticized a recent report from the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT), which reported that during 2005, Linux and Unix combined had 2,328 vulnerabilities, compared with 812 vulnerabilities for Microsoft Windows.
Linux practitioners say the counts are skewed because they count the same vulnerability each time it appeared last year in any given Linux distribution. By doing this, they say, one bug could actually show up in the list dozens of times, depending on the number of Linux variants it appeared in. The CERT stats also appear to include problems with scripting languages such as PHP or even applications that are not part of the core Linux operating system but instead are used with it.
REcon is a computer security conference being held in Montreal. The conference offers a single track of presentations over the span of three days. Check the conference page for more details.
A three day training course on reverse engineering will be presented by Nicolas Brulez. Two sessions are being made available, both before and after the conference. Check the training page for more details.
Steve Walker, president of Steve Walker & Associates and managing partner of Walker Ventures, will be the opening keynote speaker for the second annual Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) Symposium scheduled for February 27-March 3, 2006 in Baltimore, Maryland.
Registration for the Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) Symposium is now open at www.selinux-symposium.org. The event, scheduled for February 27-March 3, 2006 in Baltimore, Maryland, explores the emerging SELinux technology and the power of flexible mandatory access control in Linux.
The Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) Symposium announces papers and speakers for its second annual symposium. Experts from business, government, and academia will share and discuss the latest SELinux research and development results, application experience, and product plans. The event explores the emerging SELinux technology and the power of flexible mandatory access control in Linux. Registration for the SELinux Symposium, scheduled for February 27-March 3, 2006 in Baltimore, Maryland, will open soon at www.selinux-symposium.org.
CMP Media, a marketing solutions company serving the technology, healthcare and entertainment markets, announced today that it has acquired Black Hat Inc., a producer of information security conferences and training that includes Black Hat Briefings and Conferences.
Three of the world's biggest electronics companies--IBM, Sony and Royal Philips Electronics--have joined forces with the two largest Linux software distributors to create a company for sharing Linux patents, royalty-free.
The Open Invention Network (OIN), as the new firm unveiled on Thursday is known, could mark a breakthrough in resolving how to protect vendors and customers from patent royalty disputes resulting from freely shared Linux code.
The six-day LISA '05 training program includes 50 in-depth, immediately useful sessions on the latest techniques, effective tools, and best strategies
for solving the toughest system administration challenges. The new Hit the Ground Running Track offers 15-minute talks that give a head start on the
must-know topics in cutting-edge technologies including VoIP, SAN, configuration management, identity management, and network security.
With many keeping one eye on Hurricane Wilma churning off the coast, 6,000 IT executives last week heard Gartner analysts offer their vision on everything from security trends to wireless network directions. The Gartner Symposium and IT Expo 2005 also brought out 190 vendors and included keynote presentations from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, HP CEO Mark Hurd and Dell CEO Michael Dell.
