Good afternoon everybody! I hope your day is going well.
Here are today's Interesting Information Security Bits from around the web.
- Lavasoft has jumped into the anti-virus market. We'll have to keep an eye on this one.
Ad-Aware gets an antivirus cousin | The Download Blog - Download.com
Tags: ( free anti-virus ) - Some interesting situation that lead to a need for data recovery. Hat tip to Xavier at /dev/random (blog.rotshell.be)
Kroll Ontrack Top Ten Data Mishaps and Recoveries - Press Release
Tags: ( amusing general ) - The workarounds section for the recent 0-day for IE has been updated. This blog post goes into some further detail about the workarounds.
Security Vulnerability Research & Defense : Clarification on the various workarounds from the recent IE advisory
Tags: ( exploit vulnerability microsoft ie workarounds ) - Part 2 of SynJunky's fictional story about detection of and incident response to an insider attack.
Syn: The Story of an Insider - Part 2. The Sys Admins Story
Tags: ( insider ) - This is a nifty way to get the job done.
Writing a web services fuzzer in 5 minutes to SQL injection | tssci security
Tags: ( webappsec injection sql ) - Woot! Version 1.2 of Burp Suite has been released.
PortSwigger.net - web application security: Burp Suite v1.2 released
Tags: ( webappsec burp ) - Just go read it. You won't regret it.
Rational Survivability: GigaOm's Alistair Croll on Cloud Security: The Sky Is Falling!...and So Is My Tolerance For Absurdity
Tags: ( cloud ) - Rory is writing a series of posts on penetration testing. The first is up.
Rory.Blog: What is Penetration Testing?
Tags: ( pentest ) - Here is a very cool idea for a low/no cost way to implement DLP.
/dev/random >> Blog Archive >> Simple DLP with Ngrep
Tags: ( dlp ngrep ) - Looks like nifty tool to add to the arsenal.
Jeremy's Computer Security Blog: JPEG Fuzzer has ARRIVED
Tags: ( fuzzer jpeg ) - Watch out folks, SkyNet is just around the corner.
Schneier on Security: Killing Robot Being Tested by Lockheed Martin
Tags: ( skynet )
That's it for today. Have fun!
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Kevin
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