espionage

Good morning everybody! How about an early dose of the Bits? 🙂

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

1. 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 )
2. 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 )
3. 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 )
4. Want to know if you skill set is in demand? Here is a list of the top 10  Network World pulled from a recent Foote Partners survey.
   Top 10 technology skills - Network World
   Tags: ( career )
5. 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 )
6. 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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Kevin

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