Users now give their log-ins to bot malware clients from compromised websites.
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Archives for September, 2009
Twelve Word Tuesday: Phishing Didn’t Go Away, It Morphed
by John Pescatore | September 8, 2009 | Submit a Comment
Making Sure the Turtle on the Bottom is Secure
by John Pescatore | September 4, 2009 | 1 Comment
From Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time: A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little [...]
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Another NAC Vendor Goes Under: The Difference Between What Investors Want and What Enterprises Use
by John Pescatore | September 3, 2009 | 4 Comments
Network World reported this week that switch/NAC vendor Consentry was closing its doors. My recent post on NAC triggered some debate about NAC – does Consentry’s exit mean that NAC is a failure? That depends on whether you are an investor or a security manager. In our market note on NAC in early 2008, Gartner [...]
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Web Security Wednesday
by John Pescatore | September 2, 2009 | Submit a Comment
This week there has been reports of a day zero vulnerability in Microsoft’s IIS web server code, with public exploit code out there. Microsoft has a security advisory out with work arounds until a patch is available. Next Tuesday is September Vulnerability Tuesday, so patches should be out then, but the major advice for this [...]
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Twelve Word Tuesday: I’d Start Over Again On Desktop Security
by John Pescatore | September 1, 2009 | 2 Comments
If “Cash for Security Clunkers” existed, what would you replace with what?
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