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July 2006 - Posts

Further Perspectives on Symantec Vista "Research"

Since my original post on last week's Symantec paper, they've released another one as noted by Joris Evers in Symantec continues Vista bug hunt . Now that I've read both of the first two papers, I note two perspectives from Symantec on this: 1) the perspective Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 26, 2006 6:18 PM by jrjones | 2 Comments
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New Windows Vista Security Blog

Ben Fathi, the Corporate VP of the Security Technology Unit has kicked off a new blog focused on Windows Vista Security. I've added a link on the side and you can read it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsvistasecurity/ . Also, while I'm on the topic Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 26, 2006 1:16 AM by jrjones | 0 Comments

Symantec Stirs the Pot

UPDATE: Several readers sent me a link to the paper , so I have it now. Thanks! I didn't use "FUD" in my title, because it frankly gets used so often, and sometimes even applied to me . FUD (or Fear, uncertainty, and doubt ) is a sales or marketing strategy Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 18, 2006 4:12 PM by jrjones | 3 Comments
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Apples, Oranges and Vulnerability Metrics

NOTE: I am not asserting that my vulnerability analysis demonstrates that Windows is more secure. Rather, I frequently hear and read Linux advocates making unsupported assertions to the opposite that Linux is inherently more secure than Windows. The "unsupported" Read More...
Posted Friday, July 14, 2006 9:02 PM by jrjones | 6 Comments

Windows vs Linux (Red Hat) - Workstation - 1st Half 2006

NOTE: I am not asserting that my vulnerability analysis demonstrates that Windows is more secure. Rather, I frequently hear and read Linux advocates making unsupported assertions to the opposite that Linux is inherently more secure than Windows. The "unsupported" Read More...
Posted Friday, July 14, 2006 1:29 AM by jrjones | 6 Comments

Debian Site Hacked Again

Debian developers learned this morning that someone had hacked into one of the project servers (gluck), so the debian team took all of the servers offline to investigate, flatten and rebuild. Here's the message: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/07/msg00003.html Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 6:21 PM by jrjones | 0 Comments

Windows vs Linux (Red Hat) - Server - 1st Half 2006

NOTE: I am not asserting that my vulnerability analysis demonstrates that Windows is more secure. Rather, I frequently hear and read Linux advocates making unsupported assertions to the opposite that Linux is inherently more secure than Windows. The "unsupported" Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 1:51 AM by jrjones | 7 Comments

Windows 98 - the End is Nigh and a Look Back

What OS were you using in 1998? Windows 98? Red Hat 5.1? Something else? The MSRC blog recently re-iterated the upcoming end of life for Windows 98 , Window 98SE and Windows ME, indicating that there will be no support after the July 11th patch Tuesday. Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 06, 2006 10:34 PM by jrjones | 0 Comments
 
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