• Two Arrests regarding Zotob

    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
  • SANS on Infocon Yellow

    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...
  • e-Learning: Security in the Infomration Age

    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...
  • F-Secure issues Virus Warning

    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...
  • Vista will remove 'low-hanging fruit'

    I do not know whether you know John Pescatore, Gartner. He is definitely not, what you can call a Microsoft fan. Today he seems to have made the following statement: "It [Vista] is going to remove the low-hanging fruit. It is going to make it that...