Vulnerability Disclosure: Is it Blackmail, Whitemail or Bluemail
Hackers (or security researchers) come with a range of rainbow colored hats. Some guys'n'gals are nice (the White Hats). They find and disclose problems in communication products using approved responsible disclosure models. Others are in the business for money, and are not satisfied by the fame they get for disclosing problems. The process can easily get close to what some would consider unethical, or even direct blackmailing.
The Kilo-Day threat and mundane security
In the security business we spend a lot of time worrying about the "zero-day" threat that appears out of nowhere and immediately starts attacking a hereto unknown vulnerability. We worry so much that we overlook the vulnerabilities we already know about. The ones that have been hanging around on our systems, known but unaddressed, unpatched and wide open.
Windows bugs never really die
Hackers can successfully attack Windows PCs months -- even years -- after Microsoft Corp. fixes a flaw, a security expert said Thursday, because there's always a pool of unpatched systems.
Black Hat 'supertalk' halted due to vendor concerns
The Black Hat security conference is full of drama again in Amsterdam with the last-minute cancellation of a presentation.
Firefox fix due next week after attack is published
Mozilla developers are scrambling to fix a critical bug in the Firefox browser after attack code was released Wednesday.
Esther Schindler
If the comments are ugly, the code is ugly
claird
SVG a graphics format for 21st century
pasmith
Take Chrome OS for a test spin
Sandra Henry-Stocker
Solaris Tip: Have Your Files Changed Since Installation?
jfruh
Android fragments vs. the iPhone monolith
mikelgan
What Gizmodo missed about the Pro WX Wireless USB disk drive
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
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