December 2007
Storm, Nugache lead dangerous new botnet barrage  →
Found via Bruce Schneier’s blog
Dec 31st
Dave Barry's year in review  →
Dec 31st
The BEAST: America's Best Fiend →
Difficult to argue with most of these….
Dec 30th
The Airport Security Follies  →
Amen on this!
Dec 30th
This happens to me all the time →
Dec 29th
THREAT LEVEL's Year in Review -- 2007 | Threat... →
Dec 28th
I am not afraid →
Visit this site to send an important message to your Congresscritters:   I am not afraid of terrorism, and I want you to stop being afraid on my behalf. Please start scaling back the official government war on terror. Please replace it with a smaller, more focused anti-terrorist police effort in keeping with the rule of law. Please stop overreacting. I understand that it will not be possible to...
Dec 22nd
Give the Gift of Security →
Dec 21st
Hackers have poor nations' PCs in their sights →
Dec 19th
What DHS would like us all to become →
Dec 19th
The Top 10 Data Breaches of 2007 - CSO Magazine →
Dec 18th
Dec 18th
Schneier on Security: Anonymity and the Netflix... →
Dec 18th
Dec 18th
Sad: PCWorld Calls Vista the Biggest Tech... →
Dec 18th
Cyber Security Should be Personal Priority for all... →
Dec 17th
Santa Arrested By Imperial Stormtroopers: Imperial... →
Dec 16th
How Technology Almost Lost the War: In Iraq, the... →
Dec 16th
Is America Falling Off the Flat Earth?  →
A follow-up to the “Rising Above the Gathering Storm” report
Dec 15th
SECURITY QUESTION • by Ramon Rozas III | Every... →
Found via Bruce Schneier’s blog.   Very amusing story.
Dec 15th
Enemies at The Firewall - TIME →
Dec 15th
Judge: Man can't be forced to divulge encryption... →
Dec 15th
Cracking open the cybercrime economy | CNET... →
Dec 15th
Rational Survivability: Breaking News: Successful... →
Dec 14th
The 20 Ugliest College Campuses in the USA - A... →
Dec 13th
The 2007 Security Hall of Shame →
Dec 12th
Al's Journal : Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech →
Very inspiring
Dec 10th
Warning sounded over 'flirting robots' | Beyond... →
Dec 8th
Report: Cybercrime Stormed the Net in 2007  →
Dec 8th
Computer Security Outlook →
Recently, the McAfee Corporation released their latest Virtual Criminology Report. Personnel from CERIAS helped provide some of the research for the report. The report makes interesting reading, and you might want to download a copy. You will have to register to get a copy, however (that’s McAfee, not CERIAS). The editors concluded that there are 3 major trends in computer security and...
Dec 8th
Second CERIAS newsletter published →
Dec 8th
IEEE - Fellow Class of 2008 →
Dec 4th
ACM Names 38 Fellows for Computing and IT... →
Dec 4th
Looking for Trustworthy Alternatives to Adobe PDFs →
There was a day when PDFs were the safe, portable alternative to Microsoft Word documents. There was no chance of macro-virus infections, and emails to Spaf with PDFs didn’t bounce back as they did if you sent him a Word document. Then, it became clear that PDFs adopted mixed loyalties and were disloyal to the computer owner by locking features down and phoning home. Embedded content caused...
Dec 4th
Shell, Rolls-Royce reportedly hacked by Chinese... →
Dec 3rd
The new battleground in cybercrime | Perspectives... →
Dec 1st