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Download: H1 2008 Desktop OS Vendor Report - Vulnerabilities and Days-of-Risk

2008-10-27 07:00:00 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
 
This report looks at all of the vulnerabilities fixed by Apple, Microsoft, Red Hat and Ubuntu during the first half of 2008. At the vendor level, the report examines all vulnerabilities as well as Days of Risk (DoR) associated with those vulnerabilities. The report further drills down to examine just those issues affecting the commonly installed...
 
Tags: vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities fixed, report, windows vista customers, windows vista, fixed, days, windows, average days
 
 
 
 
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42 Days In A Hole?

2008-06-12 13:58:15 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
Jeebus. The UK govt has apparently been into the Bush White Houses private stash of recreational horticulture Being commanded about by the child-monster has slowed down my news consumption. So, big thanks to Portswigger for the heads up. Apparently the UK govt wants to set the new detention limit without charges to 42 days. This has triggered a...
 
Tags: move, british civil liberties, extraordinary move, bush white houses, fundamental british freedoms, recreational horticulture, news consumption, article link, detention limit
 
 
 
 
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Tallying Twitters Application Security Best Practice Violations

2009-01-07 06:24:31 by Chris Eng in Zero in a bit
 
If you were paying attention the last few days, youve probably read about the wave of attacks launched against the popular Twitter service. It started over the weekend, with a series of phishing attacks sent to unsuspecting Twittizens via Direct Message. Then, on Monday morning, Fox News announced Bill ORiley (sic) was gay, CNN anchor Rick...
 
Tags: twitter, twitter account, twitter blog entry, twitter admins, twitter users, popular twitter service, twitter passwords, security, application security
 
 
 
 
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Why you nearly need a P.I. to help you hire a private investigator

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2008-03-01 20:28:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
So, you need a private investigator to help you catch your cheating spouse, or to work undercover in your business to find out who has been stealing or to follow the employee who is claiming workmans comp, but youve heard he plays golf every weekend. What are you to do The first thing I would tell you is NOT to go to the yellow pages and...
 
Tags: local, professional associations local, local security company, company, illegal company, choose company, exspensive company, guards company, security company
 
 
 
 
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Five stolen Florida Department of Children and Families laptops

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2008-01-04 10:12:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 1/4/07 Organization State of Florida Contractor/Consultant/Branch Department of Children and Families (DCF Victims Daycare workers in Orange, Seminole and Osceola counties Number Affected Thousands DCF is notifying about 1,200 day-care providers and their employees Types of Data Names,...
 
Tags: agency, law enforcement agency, law, confidential information, information, confidential personal information, law enforcement led, laptops, sensitive personal information
 
 
 
 
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How to protect your company and employees from workplace violence

2008-02-25 00:03:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
Q: We have an employee who has made a series of threats to co-workers. He boasts about having a gun. We are considering terminating his employment. What should we do A: Employers have a duty to provide a safe workplace for their employees. While you seem to have reasonable grounds to suspend or terminate this person, you must at the same time...
 
Tags: workplace, workplace violence, safe workplace, workplace violence start, violence, violence includes threats, violence incident, employees, threats
 
 
 
 
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Interop Las Vegas 2008 - Some Interesting Stats

2008-06-11 14:44:02 by Louis DiMeglio in ScienceLogic
 
Ive spent a significant amount of time over the past few days looking at the data that EM7 collected on the network at Interop. A few of the statistics caught my eye and I spent some time talking to Geoff Horne, the Chief Architect of InteropNet about them. Here are the ones that we thought were most interesting 1) We ended up monitoring 205...
 
Tags: network hit, hit, network, power, power distribution units, interop, power strips, interopnet, external wan links
 
 
 
 
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Security Between Virtual Machines?

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2008-06-22 15:30:57 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
Is there security needed between virtual machines? Some say no, some say yes. I've been out talking to a number of virtualization users and non users on this topic and I'm finding that some say no and some say yes. The users of virtualization technology tend to say yes while others looking at virtualization from the outside tend to say no. Why...
 
Tags: web, web page, web site sends, server, file server, database backend server, web front, vulnerable web site, database server
 
 
 
 
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Directly connect to your corpnet with IPsec and IPv6

2008-06-25 20:55:59 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
Contrary to popular belief, the rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. Well, ok, no actual rumors, but hey, one can dream, huh? My spring calendar was full of events in Asia and Australia, then TechEd US seemed to suddenly appear out of nowhere! So I've been kinda swamped. I've missed writing here; it's good to get back into the...
 
Tags: directly, corpnet, sql server directly, data, data center, ipv6, trust, end-to-end trust vision, users store data