Jonathan L. Zittrain   07 Apr 2008 04:27 GMT
Jonathan Zittrain, author of The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, talks about "generativity" vs. lockdown, sleuthing out nefarious filtering projects around the world, and using social solutions to solve security problems.

Source: Computerworld

USAF ready for cyber offensive   07 Apr 2008 04:24 GMT
ZDNet UK has an exclusive interview with LTGEN Robert Elder Jr., who said that the Air Force Cyber Command is set to become operatational Oct. 1. Cyber Command will not just fight off "cyber" attacks from foreign countries (read "China") and terrorist groups but will go...
Source: ZDNet

Opinion: Phishing in the backyard   06 Apr 2008 13:00 GMT
A nasty new scam tactic involves gaining access to internal corporate e-mail, then phishing employees of the company. What's to be done when you can't even trust messages from your co-workers?

Source: Computerworld

Every move you make tracked by RFID tags   05 Apr 2008 16:04 GMT
We've been told for several years that RFID tags would appear everywhere. This is not the case yet, but researchers at the University of Washington would like to know if the future of social networking could be affected by these tags and check the balance between privacy and utility. They've...
Source: ZDNet

Companies struggle as Safari pops up on networks   05 Apr 2008 07:29 GMT
Apple's decision to push its Safari browser to incautious PC users as part of a recent iTunes and QuickTime update has infuriated a number of firms that now struggle to remove the unwanted software.

Source: Computerworld

Failure to patch flaw exposes data on 60,000 at Antioch   04 Apr 2008 13:00 GMT
Antioch University's failure to patch a Solaris flaw exposed data on more than 60,000 individuals.

Source: Computerworld

Vendor disk failure rates: Myth or metric?   04 Apr 2008 04:49 GMT
Using mean time between failure as a way to measure disk drive reliability is misleading to end users who are being told their drives will last 1 million to 1.5 million hours, or 114 to 170 years. One study found that some disk drive replacement rates were greater than one in 10 and grew steadily with age.

Source: Computerworld

Apple patches 11 QuickTime flaws   03 Apr 2008 17:49 GMT
Apple pushed out the latest version of QuickTime and patched 11 vulnerabilities in its third security update of 2008. Late Wednesday, Apple pushed the update, which covers QuickTime on all platforms. The following flaws affect QuickTime on Mac OS X v10.3.9, Mac OS X v10.4.9 or later,...
Source: ZDNet

Adobe claims to have known of Flash issue prior to CanSecWest '08, patch is on the way   03 Apr 2008 15:01 GMT
In a comment in a talkback on the original issue discovered in Adobe Flash that led to the compromise of the Vista machine at the Pwn2Own contest, an Adobe representitive, Erick Lee, Manager of Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team (ASSET), claimed that Adobe knew of the flaw and has a patch...
Source: ZDNet

"How do I?" videos for security   03 Apr 2008 14:06 GMT
While checking out Billy Rios's XS-Sniper blog today, I noted that he had included an interesting link to some videos produced by Microsoft.  I haven't had a chance to check them all out yet, but they are quite interesting.  These "How do I?" videos provide video tutorials to address certain...
Source: ZDNet