December 2007
Storm, Nugache lead dangerous new botnet barrage →
Found via Bruce Schneier’s blog
Dave Barry's year in review →
The BEAST: America's Best Fiend →
Difficult to argue with most of these….
The Airport Security Follies →
Amen on this!
This happens to me all the time →
THREAT LEVEL's Year in Review -- 2007 | Threat... →
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...
Give the Gift of Security →
Hackers have poor nations' PCs in their sights →
What DHS would like us all to become →
The Top 10 Data Breaches of 2007 - CSO Magazine →
Schneier on Security: Anonymity and the Netflix... →
Sad: PCWorld Calls Vista the Biggest Tech... →
Cyber Security Should be Personal Priority for all... →
Santa Arrested By Imperial Stormtroopers: Imperial... →
How Technology Almost Lost the War: In Iraq, the... →
Is America Falling Off the Flat Earth? →
A follow-up to the “Rising Above the Gathering Storm” report
SECURITY QUESTION • by Ramon Rozas III | Every... →
Found via Bruce Schneier’s blog. Very amusing story.
Enemies at The Firewall - TIME →
Judge: Man can't be forced to divulge encryption... →
Cracking open the cybercrime economy | CNET... →
Rational Survivability: Breaking News: Successful... →
The 20 Ugliest College Campuses in the USA - A... →
The 2007 Security Hall of Shame →
Al's Journal : Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech →
Very inspiring
Warning sounded over 'flirting robots' | Beyond... →
Report: Cybercrime Stormed the Net in 2007 →
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...
Second CERIAS newsletter published →
IEEE - Fellow Class of 2008 →
ACM Names 38 Fellows for Computing and IT... →
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...
Shell, Rolls-Royce reportedly hacked by Chinese... →
The new battleground in cybercrime | Perspectives... →