The 2010 Computer Security Salary Survey was launched this morning. Please complete it today or at least this week (takes 5 minutes). A valid survey is probably the most valuable tool security people have to have productive conversations with their employers about their salaries. You get the results if you participate.
Now you can have total security intelligence at your fingertips – anywhere, anytime. ArcSight Express is so easy to deploy and simple to use, we are running it on an Apple iPad. In fact, we are having so much fun that we are offering an Apple iPad certificate with every purchase of ArcSight Express in August or September.* Learn more about this offer and how you can protect your business with ArcSight Express:
Though the top four positions remained the same last week compared to the week before, Brazil continues to slowly account for a larger percentage of the spam pie. Russia and the United States had larger than usual gains (up 1.2% and 1.4% respectively) according to data collected by ICSA Labs. The increase for the United States was enough to move that country into the 5th position among the Top 10 Countries Sending Spam. See who else rounds out the top 10. Also see the graphrepresenting spam percentages over the last several months for many of the top spam sending nations.
DEFCON18 — Las Vegas — A hardware hacking expert here at Defcon18 successfully faked several attendees’ cell phones into connecting to his phony GSM base station during a live demonstration that had initially raised concerns at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
A security expert found a way to catch the talks at Black Hat for free, thanks to bugs in the video streaming service used by the security conference. Read the full article. [IDG News Service]
I am happy to introduce you August issue. This time we will be mentioning Windows, Ubuntu in our magazine, but surely it will be more than connected to BSD.
Get yourself a copy and let us know if it was usefull and interesting.
We also have modified and have another survey for you, please find some time to fill it in.
August issue of Hakin9: Securing the Cloud
New issue of Hakin9 magazine already available!
Inside:
Prey: A New Hope by Mervyn Heng
An introduction to Reverse Engineering: Flash, .NET by Nilesh Kumar
Web Malware – Part 1 by Rajdeep Chakraborty
Cyber warfare with DNSbotnets by Francisco Alonso
Search Engine Security and Privacy by Rebecca Wynn
Securing the Cloud: Is it a Paradigm Shift in Information Security? by Gary Miliefsky
Radio Frequency-enabled Identity Theft by Julian Evans
Intelligence Monopolies by Matthew Jonkmann
Special Report: Capturing the New Frontier: How To Unlock the Power of Cloud Computing by Mike Armistead
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IT Security Certifications are becoming more and more popular and necessary as the job economy becomes tougher. IT Security Professionals are trying to distant themselves from their competition while companies are looking for the best and brightest in the field. Below are some of the certifications I am researching for a bigger IT Security Certifications project.
Internal users continue to be the torn in system and security administrator’s side. This is the case for many reasons. One, they have knowledge of the networking recourses. Two, they have credentials to access various systems on the network and third, most security controls defend against external entities as compared to internal users. According to the Computer Security Institute (CSI), approximately 80 percent of network misuse incidents originate from inside the network.
