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 major offender, and the...
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 that is actionable and practical is almost impossible these days. Even large organizations that have Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs...
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 exposed after a partner’s network was breached. So what does this mean, really? It makes for good drama in the security community, and goodness knows this...














