Interesting Information Security Bits for 01/27/2010

Good afternoon everybody! I hope your day is going well.

Here are today's Interesting Information Security Bits from around the web.

1. Some thoughts about the security job market and how to get into it. (Thanks Ron)
   E-Commerce News: Trends: Breaking Into the Security Job Market
   Tags: ( career )
2. Anton has some comments about log context. Very important stuff.
   Anton Chuvakin Blog - "Security Warrior": On Log Context
   Tags: ( log-monitoring )
3. This paper (pdf) takes a look at replacing session cookies with digest authentication.
   WeaningTheWebOffOfSessionCookies.pdf (application/pdf Object)
   Tags: ( session webappsec )
4. Another really good reason for egress controls.
   Sunbelt Blog: Botnet C&C switching to http; away from IRC
   Tags: ( botnet )
5. That's a lot of malware.
   Report: 48% of 22 million scanned computers infected with malware | Zero Day | ZDNet.com
   Tags: ( malware )

That's it for today. Have fun!

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Tagged as: botnet, Career, logging, malware, session, webappsec