Good afternoon everybody! I hope your day is going well.
Here are today's Interesting Information Security Bits from around the web.
- Another vector to think about for virus, malware, and spam distribution.
Virus peddlers set up shop on Google code project * The Register
Tags: ( malware virus spam ) - 30 years in a Turkish prison.
Techworld.com - TJX Maxx hacker banged up for 30 years
Tags: ( breach hacker tjx sentencing ) - I am a big fan of *BSD operating systems. I have used them for firewalls, home-grown VPN concentrators and secure email gateways. Take a peak.
FreeBSD Version 7.1 Released by FreeBSD Project
Tags: ( iifb freebsd ) - Another case of and insider inadvertently leaking confidential information. More disturbing is that this in an area where these types of leaks can have very serious consequences.
E-mail snafu exposes names of confidential witnesses - Network World
Tags: ( breach ) - A nice article by Roger. Particularly in light of a recent article I read talking about the Board not being very security conscious.
Insane in the security membrane |Security Adviser | Roger A. Grimes | InfoWorld
Tags: ( risk general trust ) - Ever needed to provide an estimate on much effort an application penetration test will require? Not easy. Enter TA-Mapper. A nifty looking tool that attempts to help come up with an effort estimate.
Hat tip: Darknet.co.uk
C&S Resources: Tools | TA-Mapper
Tags: ( tools wepappsec estimator ) - Time to upgrade OpenSSL and BIND.
Man in the middle attack possible for DNSSEC and OpenSSL clients | Security4all - Dedicated to digital security, enterprise 2.0 and presentation skills
Tags: ( vulnerability patch bind openssl ) - This looks very interesting. I haven't played with it yet, but it takes information gathered about an individual and builds a custom dictionary for that user.
Common User Passwords Profiler
Tags: ( pentest password profiling generation user ) - A nifty perl script to capture what services are starting up on a system, local system or remote system.
Windows Incident Response: Solving problems with Perl
Tags: ( forensics windows services )
That's it for today. Have fun!
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