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Translating IP Intelligence into Actionable Security Intelligence

IP Blacklisting is not as Black or White as it sounds. IP Intelligence Should to be Used to Help flag Malicious Attack Sources. At first glance, IP addresses do not provide us with much useful information to thwart attacks. Different aspects that influence the address such as connection aggregators (in large organizations and ISPs for example) where a single IP represents a group of unrelated sources may cause us to quickly dismiss this idea....  Click here to see detail

DHS and NIST proposal suggests American ISPs should assist in stopping botnets

When I do public speaking, I often rant about how distracted we are by high profile attacks like Stuxnet even though few of us are responsible for protecting nuclear centrifuges. The vast majority of attacks are using our own computing resources to compromise our infrastructure. Our identities are being stolen, and we're spamming and DDoS'ing ourselves into oblivion.  Click here to see detail

NBC News Twitter account hacked with fake news of 9/11 Ground Zero attack

Sick-minded hackers have broken into the Twitter account of NBC News and posted messages claiming that there has been a terrorist attack at Ground Zero in New York. The bogus messages claimed that Flight 4782 has been hijacked and another plane crashed into the site where the Twin Towers collapsed ten years ago.  Click here to see detail

Can Whitehall open up to open source?

What's Whitehall's attitude to software procurement? A cynic might sum it up as "nobody ever got sacked for buying Microsoft".  Click here to see detail

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Top chief security officers in ASEAN

Nine out of 14 most outstanding chief security officers (CSO) in ASEAN in 2010 are Vietnamese. Five chief security officers (CSO) winners left include two from Singapore, one from Malaysia, one from Thailand and one from Cambodia, who were voted by the board of CSO ASEAN Conference and Awards 2010 on December 9 Detail….