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Tag Archives: Viruses / Worms

What will help significantly make Vista more secure

December 1, 2006 – 8:31 am – Richard Bejtlich wrote an article at CSO magazine describing what will make a difference in Vista’s security. It should be noted that Memory Address Randomization will significantly help prevent the spread of attacks via exploits. It is a feature turned on by default. This was not mentioned…
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FUD: Security – The Undeclared War!

September 21, 2006 – 6:54 pm – Hackers, computer viruses, security breaches, corporate espionage: we’re at war! Can you see that? Recently Bruce Schneier declared that, “I don’t think, on the whole, we are winning the security war; I think we are losing it.” In the same article Computerworld notes that,…
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Fear vs. Virtual Trust – How do you describe the world?

September 12, 2006 – 6:58 pm – Here is a story from SC magazine promoting fear. The article’s title: “Most businesses fear partners’ security impact, but few do anything about it” This could just as easily been about creating Virtual Trust with a business partner. …
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My $.02 – Consumer Reports, AV and Virus Creation

August 22, 2006 – 11:30 pm – It is well known at this point — in other words, this is old news — that Consumer Reports created new viruses to test current anti-virus products abilities to defend against unknown attack variants. The question before us: Can we learn anything from this? Fundamentally I do not see…
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