September 12, 2006 - #114
Good Morning:
There was so much going on yesterday, I need to wade through it with hip boots. I guess 9/11 got folks riled up and many announcements were held until either yesterday or today to avoid the slower holiday week. In interesting security-land activity, the entertainment industry shows its angst because hackers seem to be winning the consumer DRM battle (here [0]). Cool, free movies for all! Given the recent update to the PCI standard, we are going to see an acceleration of new vendors positioning magic bullets for compliance (here [0]). And in probably the most entertaining news of the day, the Governator has met some Hackinators who have stolen some audio from his network (here [0]). The fate of the free world hangs in the balance, clearly.
In blog-land, it must be Bizzaro day. You have Tim Wilson telling you to love your auditor (here [0]) and Eric Ogren looking for positives out of the Cisco/Microsoft collaboration (here [0]). Every day is Bizzaro day for me, so I just roll with it.
And a big Happy Birthday to my twins, Lindsay and Sam, who were born 3 years ago. 3 years passes in the blink of an eye. They are a bit confused because their party was Saturday (imagine 30 kids running around in a JumpZone place), but that's OK. We'll throw a few more presents their way and they'll get the picture. It's good to be my kids (besides the inevitable challenges of sharing a genetic link with me) and I couldn't be happier that my wife and I can make their early years comfortable and carefree.
Have a great day.
Technorati: Information Security [1]
Top Security News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060911/us_nm/schwarzenegger_hacking_dc [2]
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http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=103283 [3]
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http://www.newboundary.com/company/prelease/archive/rel_060911_PCI_Launch.htm
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here [5]) that points to how some of the games are starting to invest in security, and that's good. But like any other environment that stores your credit card, there is risk there and you should ensure the vendor has taken appropriate measures to protect that information.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/12/BUGQ6L3K081.DTL
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http://www.csoonline.com/analyst/report4075.html [7]
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Top Blog Postings
http://mycsosolutions.net/2006/09/08/case-for-stronger-authentication/
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http://blog.tenablesecurity.com/2006/09/sc_magazine_sim.html [9]
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http://www.darkreading.com/blog.asp?blog_sectionid=327
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http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/3427
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