ISACA released an interesting and though provoking white paper digging in to the risks that social media poses. It covers vulnerabilities, threats, risks, and mitigating techniques.
The Personal MBA is a reading list of about 77 of the best business books in print. I’ll call it my summer reading list.
The class covers a lot of information. SANS 560 is the most in depth technical courses I have encountered since college. You lean how to plan a penetration test, the general flow, and get hands on with the tools. The last week is a capture the flag event, which was by far the most fun I have ever had in any class. Now, it is time to take the exam.
Increased Visibility is now a part of the Security Bloggers Network.
This tutorial will walk you through resizing a partition, partitioning the remaining space, installing Backtrack 3, and configuring the machine to dual boot.
The IBM ISS X-Force Research and Development team has released a midyear report addressing vulnerability and malicious code trends reported in the first six months of 2008.
There is another SQL injection attack hitting the web that inserts malicious JavaScript in to vulnerable web applications. These exploited websites now deliver malware and end users of the sites get a nasty surprise.
Apple has released QuickTime 7.5 to address multiple vulnerabilities. There is 0-day proof-of-concept code available for Qucktime 7.4.5. Upgrading NOW would be a good idea.
Apple KB Article.
