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US-CERT Gets New Boss

2008-06-06 02:51:45 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...CERT From Network World The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has chosen a new head of its U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT Mischel Kwon, will start as director of US-CERT on June 24, a DHS spokeswoman said Thursday. She is presently acting deputy director of IT security and the chief IT security technologist at the U.S....
 
 
 
 
 
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China's CERT Annual Security Report - 2007

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2008-04-21 02:34:07 by HASH0x8b2001c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...CERT released their annual security report (in Chinese for the time being), outlining the local threatscape with data indicating the increasing efficiency applied by Turkish web site defacement groups, in between the logical increases in spam/phishing and malware related incidents. Here's an excerpt from the report According CNCERT / CC...
 
 
 
 
 
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US-CERT warns of flaw in latest RealPlayer

2008-01-02 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
The US-CERT is warning computer users of a possible problem with the latest version of RealPlayer after a Russian security company claimed to have found a way to exploit a critical flaw in the multimedia software IT Audit Checklists Advertisement Prepare for your next internal IT audit. Checklists cover security, risk management, PCI, and more
 
 
 
 
 
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Security must evolve, CERT official says

2008-03-11 10:24:08 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
A CERT official speaking at this week's European Computer Audit, Control and Security Conference told attendees that security needs to evolve into something that supports business, rather than the other way around
 
 
 
 
 
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DOJ staffer tapped to head US-CERT

2008-06-05 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has chosen a new head of its U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT
 
 
 
 
 
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The cost of a code signing certificate

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2008-01-17 07:31:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
...certificates aren't cheap. If you look at the major vendors like VeriSign and Thawte , you'll find they charge between $500 and $300 for a cert that's valid for a year Scott commented that you can get cheap code-signing certs, as Jon Robbins points out . 80 bucks sounds like quite a deal, but a quick look at Jon's post reveals that a cheap...
 
 
 
 
 
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Turns out John found a bargain

2008-01-17 10:35:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
 
...cert costs , I took a quick look at my trusted root store and didn't find anything by Comodo. I guess I should have looked more closely. There it is Apparently John's found an excellent deal . It turns out that the trusted root cert he had to install was only for the *purchase* of the certificate. It's odd that Comodo didn't use their...
 
 
 
 
 
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More on Driver Certificate Revocation

2007-08-03 07:54:37 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...certificate revocation works, see the comment section on the blog on the Atsiv revocation . Sounds like the current architecture only allows for boot-time checks, and they're just speculating that checks with VeriSign could be done more frequently: The VeriSign revocation list may impact a variety of operations. For example, verification...
 
 
 
 
 
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Ask the Auditor: Who is Responsible for Information Security?

2007-12-29 06:24:50 by Editor in Security Links
 
...certified internal auditor and certified information systems auditor Dan Swanson answers the question of who is responsible for information security By Dan Swanson A Reader Asks: Who is responsible for information security The Auditor Responds: In short, the board of directors, management (of both staff and business lines), and internal audit...
 
 
 
 
 
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Identity Framework Probable Feature List

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2007-12-16 06:42:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs