Interesting Information Security Bits for 02/01/2010

by kriggins on February 1, 2010

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

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

  1. Hoff points to an interesting project that addresses the distributed authentication issue in web based systems.
    MashSSL - An Excellent Idea You've Probably Never Heard Of... | Rational Survivability
    Tags: ( authentication ssl web )
  2. Get your Security Threat Report 2010 while it's hot!
    Sophos Security Threat Report 2010 | Graham Cluley's blog
    Tags: ( threats reports )
  3. Jennifer is involved in a few talks at Security BSides San Fran. Vote for her!
    Security Uncorked >> The Skinny on Security BSides San Francisco
    Tags: ( conferences bsides )
  4. The finalists for the Social Security Blogger Awards 2010 have been selected.
    The Ashimmy Blog: Envelope please, and the winners are . . .
    Tags: ( awards )
  5. Very cool. Encrypt your logs before sending them across the wire.
    Immutable Security >> Using OSSEC for Encrypted Log Transport
    Tags: ( logging encryption ossec )
  6. Similar to the Amazon EC2 experiment last year, this time it is done with Microsoft's Azure.
    Breaking Password Based Encryption with Azure - Gotham Digital Science
    Tags: ( passwords cracking cloud )
  7. Looks like status quo for the PCI DSS this year.
    Security.exe - Powered by The CISO Group >> Blog Archive >> No major changes to PCI DSS in 2010, but watch for chip and pin in the future
    Tags: ( pci )
  8. Graham points out something those who use twitter should be aware of. Lists as spamming tools.
    Twitter list spam
    Tags: ( lists )

That's it for today. Have fun!

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Kevin

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