Archive for January, 2008
Buy-outs?
Whilst in other industries, mergers and acquisitions was popular a year or two ago. It looks like 2008 could be the year of security testing acquisition. HP recently bought out SPI dynamics and their flagship product web inspect. Meanwhile IBM bought Watchfire. It looks like the big boys want to play in the security industry.
Sears taking web analytics a little too far…
A growing trend in websites is web analytics. This can monitor user activities to indicate what get used and what doesn’t. Google has its own analytics package. These days you really should throw on a proxy to see what it is happening. You have to be careful. Evidently Sears had a little christmas spyware surprise [...]
Full-Disclosure Circles
Its been a week now since emailing the vendor a vulnerability that could potentially be used to break into 20,000+ sites.
Still waiting for a fix…
My original ramblings can be found on WithDK.com.
Online Polls – Trust them?
Happy new year to you all!
Do you like online polls? How reliable are they. Well, here’s an old story, this still pretty relevant today. Back in 1998, people magazine introduced an online poll for the “most beautiful people in the people”. Naturally, the likes of Leonardo DiCapirio and Kate Winslett were on top. However, somebody [...]
