Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Intel Researching New Approach to Laptop Security

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=149076&f_src=darkreading_default



software approach to analysing users usage on laptops

How Real is the threat from Web based Malware?

http://www.sophos.com/security/blog/2008/03/1202.html?_log_from=rss



data from blog



1 in every 206 page requests (0.48%) were blocked as being either a medium or high risk.


1 in every 465 page requests (0.22%) were high risk.


1 in every 766 page requests (0.13%) were sites known to be hosting malware.

glossary of spam terms

taken from sophos blog



http://www.sophos.com/security/spam-glossary.html#mousetrapping

Sunday, March 23, 2008

SNORT version 3

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=148901&f_src=darkreading_default



new version of snort, supposedly self learning of network environment

Dual factor authentication solution

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=148946&f_src=darkreading_default



Dual factor authentication tokens in US Treasury department. Low cost and disability aware

Taken from article

http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/weblog/2008/03/another_reason_why_microsoft_s.html


Microsoft's list of 'bad' file types

List of 'bad' Microsoft file types that attachment manager would normally block



Bad file types