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Open Source encryption module loses FIPS certification

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has revoked certification of the open-source encryption tool OpenSSL under the Federal Information Processing Standard. OpenSSL in January became one of the first open-source software products to be validated under NIST

Brittany Day
Jul 18, 2006

U.K. ISPs to share data for spam study

A new set of guidelines may pave the way for dozens of Internet service providers in the U.K. to participate in a research project into the problem of spam, estimated to make up 60% or more of the world's e-mail traffic.

Brittany Day
Jul 11, 2006

After lawsuit, Cisco embraces Black Hat

The bad blood between Cisco Systems Inc. and organizers of the Black Hat conference appears to be a thing of the past. One year after suing the hacker conference for allowing security researcher Michael Lynn to disclose a security vulnerability, Cisco is returning to Black Hat -- this time as one of the show's top sponsors. Black Hat USA will be July 29 to Aug. 3 in Las Vegas.

Brittany Day
Jun 15, 2006

Cybersecurity Contests go National

It has all the makings of a B-movie plot: A corporate network targeted by hackers and a half dozen high-school students as the company's only defense. Click here for Core!! Yet, teams of students from ten different Iowa high schools faced exactly that scenario during a single night in late May in the High School Cyber Defense Competition. The contest tasked the teenagers with building a network in the three weeks leading up to the competition with only their teachers, and mentoring volunteers from local technology firms, as their guides.

Brittany Day
Jun 01, 2006

Black Frog takes up Blue Frog spam challenge

Blue Security may have been forced to close because of denial of service attacks from spammers, but the internet community is determined to carry on its work.

Brittany Day
May 24, 2006

Reclusive Linux Founder Opens Up

Portland, Oregon is the unlikely capital of a global software revolution. The revolution is called Open Source. And its leader? Linus Torvalds, the reclusive founder of Linux. Linux is the free software code developed by a global community of programmers. It's also the world's fastest growing operating system and number two behind Microsoft.

Brittany Day
May 20, 2006

The e-Crime Congress 2006. March 30 & 31 2006

The e-Crime Congress 2006 will seek to challenge conventional attitudes on e-Crime and examine how business, government and law enforcement can continue to work together in order to tackle a threat that undermines public confidence in the Internet as a viable and secure commercial medium for the future.

Brittany Day
Mar 27, 2006

Rootkit Hunting vs. Compromise Detection

The presentation I gave in Washington, D.C., at Black Hat Federal Conference in January 2006. It's about new generation of stealth malware, so called Stealth by Design (SbD) malware, which doesn't use any of the classic rootkit technology tricks, but still offers full stealth! The presentation also focuses on limitations of the current anti-rootkit technology and why it’s not useful in fighting this new kind of SbD malware. Consequently, alternative method for compromise detection is advocated in this presentation, Explicit Compromise Detection (ECD), as well as the challenges which Independent Software Vendors encounter when trying to implement ECD for Windows systems.

Benjamin D. Thomas
Mar 01, 2006

Businesses Back New Professional Body to Raise IT Security Standards

A new professional body for information security professionals launched today (Monday 27 February) will help raise the standards of IT security across the UK, leading employers have said. The Institute for Information Security Professionals has won backing from major UK firms, which plan to use it as a benchmark for hiring IT security staff.

Brittany Day
Feb 27, 2006

Security experts look to the future

A panel discussion involving a group of experts held during DEMO ‘06 in Phoenix last week concluded that the state of security today is not where it should be. But the panelists also had suggestions on how to improve it. During the conference, which is owned by Network World, former IBMer and consultant John Patrick called together a panel of industry and academic figures to try to answer the question, “Will the good guys be able to stay ahead of the bad guys?

Benjamin D. Thomas
Feb 15, 2006

Security Staffing Survey

According to our recent Security Staffing survey, IT security executives believe their organizatons are in greater jeopardy due to staffing shortages than their peers that oversee corporate security. Additionally, IT uses flex time and training as a motivator more so than corporate security executives. Corporate security organizations outsource more than IT security departments and the most frequently outsourced positions were security guards and guard management, while IT security were more likely to outsource data back up and biometrics.

Benjamin D. Thomas
Feb 08, 2006

Shmoocon 2006: Wrap-up

Well, we’ve come to the end of my Shmoocon 2006 coverage. The conference wasn’t all presentations though, there were a lot of other fun activities: The Hacker Arcade featured arcade games that had been modified to generate USB tokens that you could later redeem for prizes. The folks at 757.org modified a skill crane so that it could be controlled from the web. Of course, toys like this at a hacker convention spawned some creative solutions. David Rhodes scripted the skill crane’s web interface so that it would try every possible coordinate pair and ended up with an armful of prizes. Another attendee discovered that the USB tokens weren’t case sensitive and generated a couple hundred thousand prize tokens.

Benjamin D. Thomas
Feb 06, 2006

Louisville Geek Dinner

The purpose of this site is to organize a social networking event for geeks in Louisville and surrounding areas. The geek dinner concept came from listening to London Geek Dinner podcasts. London Geek Dinners have attracted crowds over 175. Hopefully we can pull strong numbers in Louisville. Who is invited, and what does it mean to be a geek? Wikipedia defines geek as the following, "a person who is fascinated, perhaps obsessively, by obscure or very specific areas of knowledge and imagination." The simple fact is that we love technology. We need a social event where everyone speaks our language for a change. All geeks are invited. Please encourage your geek friends to Signup. The best way to ensure that you will have a good time is to invite other geeks that you know.

Benjamin D. Thomas
Feb 05, 2006

CFP: New Security Paradigms Workshop

NSPW is a unique workshop that is devoted to the critical examination of new paradigms in security. Each year, since 1995, we examine proposals for new principles upon which information security can be rebuilt from the ground up. We conduct extensive, highly interactive discussions of these proposals, from which we hope both the audience and the authors emerge with a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of what has been discussed.

Brittany Day
Feb 03, 2006

Computer security today

Infosecurity Europe 2006 is just around the corner. Taking place at the Olympia in London 25-27 April 2006, it is the most important gathering of security professionals in Europe. At the press conference in London earlier this week, we were introduced to last year’s statistics as well as information about the 2006 conference with many presentations.

Brittany Day
Feb 02, 2006

CERT Stats Under Fire

Linux supporters have roundly criticized a recent report from the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT), which reported that during 2005, Linux and Unix combined had 2,328 vulnerabilities, compared with 812 vulnerabilities for Microsoft Windows. Linux practitioners say the counts are skewed because they count the same vulnerability each time it appeared last year in any given Linux distribution. By doing this, they say, one bug could actually show up in the list dozens of times, depending on the number of Linux variants it appeared in. The CERT stats also appear to include problems with scripting languages such as PHP or even applications that are not part of the core Linux operating system but instead are used with it.

Benjamin D. Thomas
Jan 30, 2006

Recon 2005 Conference Videos

REcon is a computer security conference being held in Montreal. The conference offers a single track of presentations over the span of three days. Check the conference page for more details. A three day training course on reverse engineering will be presented by Nicolas Brulez. Two sessions are being made available, both before and after the conference. Check the training page for more details.

Benjamin D. Thomas
Jan 25, 2006

Opening Keynote Speaker Announced for the Second Security-Enhanced Linux Symposium

Steve Walker, president of Steve Walker & Associates and managing partner of Walker Ventures, will be the opening keynote speaker for the second annual Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) Symposium scheduled for February 27-March 3, 2006 in Baltimore, Maryland.

Brittany Day
Jan 24, 2006

Registration Open for the Second Security-Enhanced Linux Symposium and Developer Summit

Registration for the Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) Symposium is now open at www.selinux-symposium.org. The event, scheduled for February 27-March 3, 2006 in Baltimore, Maryland, explores the emerging SELinux technology and the power of flexible mandatory access control in Linux.

Brittany Day
Jan 05, 2006

Speakers Confirmed for the Second Security-Enhanced Linux Symposium

The Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) Symposium announces papers and speakers for its second annual symposium. Experts from business, government, and academia will share and discuss the latest SELinux research and development results, application experience, and product plans. The event explores the emerging SELinux technology and the power of flexible mandatory access control in Linux. Registration for the SELinux Symposium, scheduled for February 27-March 3, 2006 in Baltimore, Maryland, will open soon at www.selinux-symposium.org.

Brittany Day
Dec 08, 2005

Organizations/Events - Page 18

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