A short post today since I'm on the road!
I've been reading the Malcolm Gladwell book "What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures". It's a good read, which doesn't come as a surprise since I've enjoyed his other works. One of the chapters...
Published: February 10th, 2012 | By: Dave Shackleford
Published: February 2nd, 2012 | By: Dave Shackleford
This week's shocking revelation is courtesy of Verisign - they were hacked in 2010. Gasp! You don't say! HACKED?! Yes, the company admitted that they were the target of numerous attacks in 2010, some of which were apparently successful. According...
Published: January 23rd, 2012 | By: Dave Shackleford
This past two weeks, a number of sites on the Internet modified their logo or home page (Google) or effectively went offline, all to protest a ridiculous set of bills being reviewed in the US legislature. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was the...
Published: January 13th, 2012 | By: Dave Shackleford
I’ve become a bit obsessed with threat intelligence lately. “Obsessed” may be a strong word, but not by much - this stuff is really important. I’ve heard from quite a few IANS clients and Forum participants that gathering good threat intelligence...
Published: January 6th, 2012 | By: Dave Shackleford
Happy New Year! One of the big stories in the infosec community right now is the leak of Symantec’s Antivirus software source code. Symantec confirmed that the source code for both Symantec Endpoint Protection 11 and Antivirus 10.2 had been...
Published: December 16th, 2011 | By: Dave Shackleford
The current infosec news is buzzing with a few major stories and topics that all deal with user behavior tracking, both online and on mobile networks. We’ve talked a bit about Carrier IQ, the company that has a low-level agent installed...
Published: December 15th, 2011 | By: John Galda
From a recent security talk by IANS Faculty member John Galda at the November ISSA meeting in Boston.
Security programs should be based on risk. However, if you do not have any information on current threats and vulnerabilities, it is...
Published: December 9th, 2011 | By: Dave Shackleford
Happy Friday everyone! One of the stories we posted last week discussed Trevor Eckhart’s research on Carrier IQ’s application. The application, installed on millions of mobile devices, logs keystrokes and essentially passes sensitive data back to...
Published: December 2nd, 2011 | By: Dave Shackleford
Happy Friday everyone! I’m posting this as my first of many entries here at IANS, and I’ll be posting a weekly entry here that includes some topics of interest in the infosec community over the last few days, as well as summarizing some of the...
Published: December 1st, 2011 | By: Ed Moyle
When it comes to HITECH, many security professionals think immediately of the impact that HITECH has had on topics like breach disclosure and expansion of HIPAA security and privacy requirements to business associates. And while these topics are...
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