Time marches on . . . http://northsecuritylabs.com/

I love how fragile the Internet really is. This is demonstrated from time to time and when it is - I'm drawn to it like a police chase on live TV . . . sometimes the root name servers come under attack or someone figures out a neat way to poison DNS caches...

Hilarious: http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/02/15/the-laser-elevator/

UPDATE 2/27/2008: Douglas MacIver wrote an excellent and very authoritative blog post here on this topic - I highly recommend reading his blog post instead of mine. :) http://blogs.msdn.com/si_team/archive/2008/02/25/protecting-bitLocker-from-cold-attacks...

My boss is apparently allowed to speak to the press. :) http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Behind-the-Scenes-at-Microsofts-Secure-Windows-Initiative/

This morning I attended a session on DTrace which is a sort of tracing capability created by Sun for Solaris 10 that can be ported to other OS's. Some engineers from SAIC have figured out how to make this useful for reverse engineering, vuln discovery...

So I'm at Blackhat Federal this week - doing the training thing (IDA class with Chris Eagle - fairly good / broad intro to IDA and it's capabilities) and today was the first day of the sessions. It's been a great con so far . . . Monday and Tuesday I...

Asus Eee PC owned out of the box (hint runs Linux): http://www.risesecurity.org/blog/entry/6/ Yet another Apple Quicktime 0-day posted 2 days ago: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2008/Feb/0304.html The Wii has been pwn3d via a stack smash to...

Joe Stewart is the man . . . I have a ton of respect for him and everyone at Team Cymru. They teamed up to find the C&C for the Mega-D trojan and Joe has done another one of his excellent write-ups here: http://www.secureworks.com/research/threats...

http://www.veracode.com/blog/?p=77 Hilarious . . . I can finally explain what my team does to my less technical friends / family with that simple drawing.

I would not be surprised at all if it were Hamilton - but alas - given his hectic travel schedule during F1 season - I doubt that it is: http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/04/the-stig-some-say-hes-lewis-hamilton/ Top Gear - my favorite show on TV next...