Sunday, February 8, 2009

Around The Horn vol.1,35

Alerts

-- nada black tuesday is tomorrow though.

Security News

Some tricks from Conficker's bag, (Mon, Feb 9th)

from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green
There have been a lot of discussions about various aspects of Conficker, definitely the most prevale ...(more)...

12:32 PM (9 hours ago)
Are we becoming desensitized to data breaches?, (Sun, Feb 8th)

from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green
Maybe it's just me, but are all of the mass media reports of data compromises causing us to become d ...(more)...

8:55 PM (45 minutes ago)
Windows 7 UAC flaws and how to fix them

from Ars Technica - Front page content by drpizza@quiscalusmexicanus.org (Peter Bright)

Unlike many, I'm a big fan of Vista's User Account Control. Truth is, I don't get a lot of prompts asking me to elevate, and those that I do get are legitimate. Sure, the implementation isn't perfect; there are some scenarios that cause a rapid proliferation of prompts that are a little annoying (such as creating a folder in a protected location in Vista RTM), and there are even a few places where it forces elevation unnecessarily, but on the whole I think it's a good feature.
The basic purpose of UAC is

3:02 AM (3 hours ago)
Kaspersky hacker: Database exposed for days

from The Register - Security
Security Co. mum on Jedi mind trick
Some 24 hours after a hacker claimed to hack a Kaspersky website and access a database containing proprietary customer information, the security provider issued a terse statement confirming it had experienced a security issue.…

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