Artist among the masses
I’m looking for an artist or artists among you who want to get involved in the Michael Daw hacker cartoons. Let me know.
Hacker tools liability
UK government have been trying to revamp computer crime laws. There are a number of issues discussed at theregister. One of which relates to the provision to ban development, ownership and distribution of “hacker tools”. But what are hacker tools? An example of a tool is a password recovery tool (good), which also happens to […]
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.