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Techies Respond to Torvalds on Security Bugs

2008-07-31 16:18:18 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...viewpoint to not provide any hint of a security bug aside of the fix itself in the source code, it stood out nobody spoke up to defend that viewpoint." Wow! I figured someone would defend him just because it's Linus! I also disagree with him, but I suspect Linus is comfortable even if nobody agrees. I admire people who make up their own minds
 
Tags: linus, suspect linus, security bugs, internet storm center, admire people, reader mail, defend, viewpoint, security bug
 
 
 
 
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Techies Respond to Torvalds on Security Bugs

2008-07-31 16:18:18 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...viewpoint to not provide any hint of a security bug aside of the fix itself in the source code, it stood out nobody spoke up to defend that viewpoint." Wow! I figured someone would defend him just because it's Linus! I also disagree with him, but I suspect Linus is comfortable even if nobody agrees. I admire people who make up their own minds
 
Tags: linus, suspect linus, security bugs, internet storm center, admire people, reader mail, defend, viewpoint, security bug
 
 
 
 
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About Penetration Testing

2008-01-07 09:15:52 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
Students generally learn red teaming, sometimes called penetration testing or ethical hacking, as "breaking into your own system to see how hard it is to do so." Contrary to this simplistic view, a penetration test requires a detailed analysis of the threats and potential attackers in order to be most valuable. The author looks at penetration...
 
Tags: penetration, penetration test requires, potential attackers, simplistic view, educational viewpoint, system, contrary, author, ethical
 
 
 
 
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Links for 2008-02-03 [del.icio.us]

2008-02-04 00:00:00 by Editor in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
Spire Security Viewpoint: The Other Side of Privacy
 
Tags: spire security viewpoint, privacy
 
 
 
 
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Viewpoint Two: The recession wont affect security folks

2008-02-13 12:51:37 by Paul Stamp in Security & Risk Management
 
OK, for arguments sake let's suppose were in a recession. What does that really mean for us security folks To answer that question, lets turn the question on its head. What did security spending look like when times were pretty good? Say from early 2005 to 2007 for example - did we see an upturn in spending? Our research found that security...
 
Tags: security, security folks, majority, business, vast majority, business justification, streamline process, contractual requirements, affect
 
 
 
 
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Links for 2008-02-25 [del.icio.us]

2008-02-26 00:00:00 by Editor in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...Viewpoint: Another Envelope: Vulnerability Growth Rates Calculations: * [C1] Number of new lines of code created every day -- 2m * 25 = 50 million [A1]*[A2] * [C2] Number of new vulnerabilities created every day -- 50m / 10k = 5,000 [C1]/[A3] * [C3] % of new vulnerabilities eventually found Enterprise Systems | IT and Compliance: 5 Big...
 
Tags: log management, log, security, spire security viewpoint, risk management, practical risk management, application due care, application, security layers
 
 
 
 
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Is the doctor in?

2008-04-20 14:54:33 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...viewpoint, he was able to determine how these viruses were affecting systems within the computer (the boot-sector was affected by the Brain virus, the .com files were affected by the Lehigh virus, and both .com and .exe files were affected by the Jerusalem virus). Tippetts company Certus International Corp. then began to create anti-virus...
 
Tags: anti-virus software programs, software, virus, virus detection, computer software company, brain virus, jerusalem virus, company, lehigh virus
 
 
 
 
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Links for 2008-05-12 [del.icio.us]

2008-05-13 00:00:00 by Editor in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...Viewpoint: The Best Virtualization Joke Ever The Forrester Blog For Security & Risk Professionals Visionary folks see this promised land of information security and risk management being in the green valley of business-driven risk management, where data, identity, policy, and compliance are crucial cities (elements Reflections on the 2008 RSA...
 
Tags: security, information security, risk management, spire security viewpoint, risk, prevent genetic discrimination, annual movie-plot threat, rsa conference, forrester blog
 
 
 
 
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Links for 2008-07-01 [del.icio.us]

2008-07-02 00:00:00 by Editor in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...Viewpoint: Top Ten Strategic Security Metrics Log Management: What's in Your Log Files? -- log management -- LogLogic -- log maintenance Burton Group Identity Blog: Identity Management in Retrograde Motion: Thoughts from Burton Group Catalyst North America 2008
 
Tags: spire security viewpoint, security, log management, strategic security metrics, catalyst north america, burton, retrograde motion, log maintenance, mark curphey
 
 
 
 
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A Blast from the Past: CEP at Stanford,1998-2003

2008-07-07 19:20:21 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...viewpoint of individual users. And it can be changed from moment to moment while the target system is in operation. This paper presents an overview of Complex Event Processing applied to a particular example of a distributed message-based system, a fabrication process management system. The concepts of causal event histories, event patterns,...