Good morning everybody! How about an early dose of the Bits? 🙂
Here are today's Interesting Information Security Bits from around the web.
- A nice post by Bill that speaks to an important point. We don't have to be perfect, but we have to be willing to try to be.
A Tale of Two Vendors or Security Sells : The Security Catalyst
Tags: ( general ) - Time to patch your Firefox. This version addresses the 0-day used at CanSecWest to exploit Firefox.
Firefox 3.08 Released - Security Watch
Tags: ( firefox patches vulnerability ) - This Network World article points to a report released yesterday "Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network." From the report:
"This report documents the GhostNet - a suspected cyber espionage network of over 1,295 infected computers in 103 countries, 30% of which are high-value targets, including ministries of foreign affairs, embassies, international organizations, news media, and NGOs."
Deep computer-spying network touched 103 countries - Network World
Tags: ( espionage ) - Want to know if you skill set is in demand? Here is a list of the top 10Â Network World pulled from a recent Foote Partners survey.
Top 10 technology skills - Network World
Tags: ( career ) - The Yubikey is a nifty little tool that I ran across as RSA Europe last fall. Xavier has posted a nice tutorial on using one to authenticate to a Linux machine.
/dev/random >> Blog Archive >> Yubikey Authentication on Linux
Tags: ( tools yubikey ) - The Call for Papers is open for Metricon. If you are into metrics, go submit something.
Emergent Chaos: Metricon 4.0 Call for Papers
Tags: ( conference metricon cfp )
That's it for today. Have fun!
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