A trial of 3 people being tried in Britain for terrorism has uncovered how they used stolen credit card information obtained over the Internet to purchase communication forums and web hosting services to spread terrorist propaganda.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/05/AR2007070501945_pf.html
[Editor's Note (Valle): This news is sure to make anti-terrorist government officials look at ID theft in a new, more serious light.]
A very insightful article about how data will become centralized and how information drives business models.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9024560&source
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Editor’s note (Valle): I am a firm believer that information (creation, dissemination, and use) ultimately drives all business models and that the winners in the market are those that will use information to create more value to for their customers than their competitors. I like the author’s idea of a chief information stategist (CIS) whose importance, I think, will eclipse the CIO and CTO role.
Spammers are using image-based spam and artificial intelligence to get through even the best anti-spam defenses
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9022560&pageNumber=1
[Editors note: (Valle) Since there is currently no really good defense for stopping sophisticated image spam that uses CAPTCHA (completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart) technology, anti-spam vendors have had to rely more on intent and IP and URL reputation analysis to block spam.
See how your anti-virus program did in this head-to-head competition of 29 different anti-virus vendors.
http://www2.csoonline.com/blog_view.html?CID=32948
SearchSecurity.com offers some of the best free on-line information security training courses on the Net. Check them out.
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/generic
/0,295582,sid14_gci1115504,00.html?Offer=SEint2
It’s impossible to say exactly what the most significant virtualization security challenges will be, but here are some key points to consider..
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,
sid14_gci1254079,00.html?track=sy260
Steve Gibson has some great podcasts and PDF transcripts on the topic of virtualization and virtualization security. If you can’t get to all of them I highly recommend starting with Episode 54.
Episode 50: Virtual Machine History & Technology
Episode 53: Vmware
Episode 54: Blue Pill
Episode 55: Application Sandboxes
Episode 57: Virtual PC Versus VMware
http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm
Welcome to the Security World blog where I will be posting thoughts and ruminations on breaking IT security topics. I look forward to a lively discussion amongst IT security professionals.
