I'm sorry, I really shouldn't be doing this but this is just getting better by the day. Every single time I cannot help but think about other uses for £50.
We have determined that there isn't much happening in the security community at the moment if we ignore the slight issue with the RIAA. Just so it doesn't look like we are not covering the newsworthy material let us spend a line or two on the matter: it concerns the fact that the RIAA has apparently employed a well-known chap to write a worm to run after peer-to-peer networks. Furthermore the chap in question also created a DDoS network of all the systems infected by the worm. Oh, hot off the press, it was all a hoax , what a pity. Allow me to quote from the article: According to Aitel, who said he has no other involvement with the group, Gobbles helps to keep the security industry's "huge egos" in check. Couldn't agree more.
Fine, now that we've covered the real stuff let us get back to the serious plight of electron wastage. Our candidates for the 2003 Preferred Security Consultancy award have released something "new". Quick summary for those quite rightly asleep in the past week: Microsoft will release their code to governments in some form. Guess what the security slant it is? That, as we know (do we?) that open source is safer, this will improve security for governments under attack (according to their database). I am still attempting to read information into the sequence of bytes making up the press release.
Posted by arrigo at January 17, 2003 12:34 PM