It is Thanksgiving Day week in the U.S. and that means a couple of days off. I decided to tack on an extra day and won't be working tomorrow either. Yay! Five days off in a row.
Anywho, I will also be taking those days off from the Interesting Bits posts so this one will have to tide you over until Monday 🙂
Here are today's Interesting Information Security Bits from around the web.
- 10 things to think about not doing when on Facebook. This list will keep you safer.
Errata Security: 10 Facebook Don'ts
Tags: ( facebook ) - Is your iPhone infected with the Duh worm? Paul tells us how to clean it up.
How to clean up the Duh iPhone worm | Paul Ducklin's blog
Tags: ( iphone worm ) - Russel is looking for some collaborators on an research project he is working on. It looks to be very interesting. From his post: "The topic is the arms race between attackers and defenders from the perspective of innovation rates and "evolutionary success" - the Red Queen problem (running just to stand still). Here's a sample research question: "can bureaucracies (defenders) keep up with a decentralized black market (attackers)?", and similar." Read the rest of the post and drop him a line if you are interested.
Information Security as an Evolutionary Arms Race - Research Collaborators Wanted << The New School of Information Security
Tags: ( research ) - Shrdlu once again has penned an article that you should go read. Metrics are great, but they have to mean something.
The meaning of metrics
Tags: ( metrics risk ) - There is 0-day out there for IE 6 and IE 7. Microsoft's recommendation in some cases is to upgrade to IE 8. Um, oops.
Major IE8 flaw makes 'safe' sites unsafe
Tags: ( ie vulnerabilities ) - An interesting post that explores a conundrum that some organizations face when trying to comply with PCI. What happens when some of what I do requires me to be out of compliance with PCI-DSS?
Branden Williams's Security Convergence Blog >> Multi-Function Service Providers, What To Do?
Tags: ( pci ) - From the post: "We have uploaded the audio recording of select talks from the Ohio Information Security Summit that took place October 29-30, 2009 in Cleveland, Ohio." Looks like some good stuff is available. Check out the post for the details.
Security Justice >> Blog Archive >> Select Talks from ISS2009 Now Available for Download
Tags: ( audo conferences talks ) - A new tool is available that shows some interesting things about the internet.
Room362.com - Blog - SHODAN The Computer Search
Tags: ( tools )
That's it for today. Have fun!
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Kevin
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