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McAfee's open source statements are fighting words to Matt Asay

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2008-04-15 08:47:01 by HASH0x8b572d0 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...source and out comes the Utah bulldog from the dog house straining to break free of his leash. Now Matt is saying that the McAfee folks have libeled open source in a recent white paper they released on botnets. Here is the quote in question Taking the bot controller offline may kill a botnet. As a result, many bots use a Dynamic Domain Name...
 
Tags: source, matt, source brings, matt asay, source applications, linux, linux versus windows, source watchdog, mcafee
 
 
 
 
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Contributing To Open Source Software Security

2008-05-05 11:38:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...source software plays a critical role in the operation of the Internet. The security of open source software is therefore quite important, as it often interacts with personal information -- ranging from credit card numbers to medical records -- that needs to be kept safe. There has been a long-lived discussion on whether open source software...
 
Tags: security, source software, software, additional security contributions, background, operational security background, security professionals, security vulnerability mediation, manual security analysis
 
 
 
 
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1st Source Bank reissues all debit cards in response to breach

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2008-06-05 09:09:56 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Source Bank Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Customers Number Affected Unknown Types of Data Debit card information including Track 2 data contained on magnetic stripes and some PIN numbers Breach Description South Bend, Ind.-based 1st Source Bank is reissuing its entire portfolio of debit cards after a hacker or hackers broke...
 
Tags: 1st source, bank, 1st source bank, evan 1st source, server, bank server, bank officials, breach, bank employs
 
 
 
 
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Trend vs Barracuda - its not about open source, its about the money!

2008-06-13 22:39:19 by HASH0x8c11980 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...source community suit. From Chen's answer it seems Trend was taken totally by surprise by Barracuda's aggressive PR and their ability to turn elements of the open source community against Trend. The pity for Trend is that Chen actually does make clear the difference between just Clam AV being a virus scanner and the way Barracuda uses Clam AV...
 
Tags: money, trend, barracuda, money trend, source, source community suit, source community, trend versus, shoots trend
 
 
 
 
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Trend vs Barracuda - its not about open source, its about the money!

2008-06-13 23:39:19 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...source community suit. From Chen's answer it seems Trend was taken totally by surprise by Barracuda's aggressive PR and their ability to turn elements of the open source community against Trend. The pity for Trend is that Chen actually does make clear the difference between just Clam AV being a virus scanner and the way Barracuda uses Clam AV...
 
Tags: money, trend, barracuda, money trend, source, source community suit, source community, trend versus, shoots trend
 
 
 
 
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New Open-Source DNS Server Supports DNSSEC

2008-05-20 10:35:23 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...source recursive DNS server. It's an important program. Unbound is so-named to contrast it to BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) , the overwhelmingly most popular recursive DNS (Domain Name System) server on the Internet. But BIND, which is also open source, is not many people's favorite program. It has a long history of serious security...
 
Tags: dns, dns servers, authoritative dns servers, popular recursive dns, recursive, protect dns results, source, unbound, bind
 
 
 
 
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Matt Asay again shows that he doesn't know much about open source security

2008-05-15 22:43:17 by HASH0x8b563c4 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...source and security. Frankly from the comments Matt leaves back, I think he views me as a pain in his butt and why if I don't agree with him do I read his blog. I read Matt's blog because I often do agree with him, but I also read it because I think it important that just because you don't agree with someones views, doesn't mean they have...
 
Tags: matt, matt asay, matt sticks, matt talks, comments matt leaves, source, reason matt, scripts, word scripts
 
 
 
 
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Auditing open source software

2007-10-08 16:13:00 by Panayiotis Mavrommatis in Google Online Security Blog
 
...source community, and there is no exception in Google's Security Team. Let's look at some interesting open source vulnerabilities that were located and fixed by members of Google's Security team. It is interesting to classify and aggregate the code flaws leading to the vulnerabilities, to see if any particular type of flaw is more prevalent ...
 
Tags: image, malicious image file, libtiff image, values, jpeg image, tiff header values, source, evil tiff file, evil
 
 
 
 
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SQL Server source code analysis and management adds database security

2008-04-24 11:41:32 by Heidi Sweeney in WhatIs: Enterprise IT tips and expert advice
 
Manage and protect your SQL Server databases by implementing source code analysis. Source code is the foundation of any application, and integrating methods to test and debug this code adds a key layer of security. IT security specialist Kevin Beaver explains why source code analysis should be a fundamental component of your SQL Server security...
 
Tags: source code, code, source code analysis, sql server databases, fundamental component, key layer, security, test, application