Support Wars

From Enterprise Storage Forum: Is this a good time to embark upon a storage networking career? Naysayers might point to the tough job market, or a future where storage, networking and systems converge to such a degree that there will no longer be much demand for data storage specialists. But many in the industry say [...]

From Tech Republic: The Washington Post reports in Defense official discloses cyberattack: The most significant breach of US military computers was caused by a flash drive inserted into a US military laptop on a post in the Middle East in 2008. A foreign intelligence agency managed to place malware on a USB flash drive that [...]

From SF Weekly: Terry Childs, the “rogue techie” who refused to disclose the passwords to a crucial city networking system for the better part of two weeks, has been sentenced to four years in state prison. He also may be stuck with up to $1.485 million in restitution payments. Since Childs has been jailed since [...]

From Ars Technica: Now that we’re past the halfway point of 2010, it’s starting to become apparent that the browser trends we’ve noted over the past several months are no longer holding. Sure, Safari and Opera are still slowly gaining share, but the three big guys are restless. Firefox has started declining, Chrome’s growth spurt [...]

From Ars Technica: The United Arab Emirates tends to be one of the more moderate nations in the Persian Gulf region, which may have contributed to its rise as a major financial center. The bankers apparently brought their BlackBerrys with them, creating a small but dedicated group of users on the UAE’s local carriers, like [...]

From SANS ISC: As announced on Friday, Microsoft released an out-of-band bulletin to address the recent Shortcut/LNK exploits. As confirmed in Microsoft’s announcement, various malware is now attempting to exploit this vulnerability. The vulnerability is rather easy to exploit in particular given the tools available to craft necessary shortcuts. Clients are the main target but [...]

So I took a little break around Christmas and the days turned into weeks.  But I’m back.  There’s something about Black Hat that wakes my neurons up.  More to follow soon.

From Dark Reading: Adobe’s Reader and Acrobat PDF applications have been hit by a new attack exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in the pervasive tools. So far the exploit has been used mostly in targeted attacks, but researchers say it could soon spread now that the cat is out of the bag. Adobe late yesterday issued [...]

From SecurityFocus: The cybercriminals behind the Zeus botnet used Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) to host the central server used to control a portion of the compromised machines, security firm CA stated on Thursday. The company found that infected machines would contact a server hosted in Amazon’s cloud to download updates and additional functionality to [...]

From Dark Reading: Keyloggers and spyware are the most commonly occurring attacks in companies that suffer major data breaches, according to a report published today by Verizon Business. The new report, “2009 Supplemental Data Breach Investigations Report: An Anatomy of a Data Breach,” offers a look at the 15 most common security attacks and how [...]