I just saw the first news regarding arrests for Zotob: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20050826/D8C7K9NO3.html

It seems that the work we are doing together with the different policies starts to pay off

Roger

Well, I have seen several virus alerts on Level 2 from F-Secure without actually atking off. But this time there is a huge difference: When Slammer broke out, I have been on vacation. When Blaster took off - I have been on vacation. Since an hour, I am on vacation and just in this moment, F-secure issued a warning... : http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/

Let's see where this leads to

Roger

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) just released a pretty interesting e-Learning Course regarding "Security in the Information Age".

I personally think that ir somewhere opens up the IT-Security-Guy's mind:

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/crn/activities/elearning.information-age.cfm

Roger

Barracuda Networks released its annual spam report, which shows between 90 to 95 percent of all e-mail sent in 2007 is spam. This is based on an analysis of more than 1 billion daily e-mail messages sent to its more than 50,000 customers worldwide.

The above figures represent an increase from the estimated 85 to 90 percent of all e-mails being spam in 2006.

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/tech-news/?p=1756

Urs

It seems that SANS is expecting that the exploits for our August patches or for the vulnerability in the Veritas Backup software will be integrated in a worm pretty soon. To quote them: "there are enough exploits for these vulnerabilities known to be in the wild that we believe it is only a matter of hours or at most days until they are integrated into a worm.".

In the last few months, SANS has been pretty offensive with warnings but we have for sure to further look at the situation in the next few days.

http://isc.sans.org/

Roger