For your Security Manager

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/30/090224&from=rss

Taming Conficker, the Easy Way

Posted by kdawson on Monday March 30, @08:07AM from the scanner-lightly dept. Security

Dan Kaminsky writes

"We may not know what the Conficker authors have in store for us on April 1st, but I doubt many network administrators want to find out. Maybe they don't have to: I've been working with the Honeynet Project'sTillmann Werner and Felix Leder, who have been digging into Conficker's profile on the network. What we've found is pretty cool: Conficker actually changes what Windows looks like on the network, and this change can be detected remotely, anonymously, and very, very quickly. You can literally ask a server if it's infected with Conficker, and it will give you an honest answer. Tillmann and Felix have their own proof of concept scanner, and with the help of Securosis' Rich Mogull and the multivendor Conficker Working Group, enterprise-class scanners should already be out from Tenable (Nessus), McAfee/Foundstone, nmap, ncircle, and Qualys. We figured this out on Friday, and got code put together for Monday. It's been one heck of a weekend."

Another Obama appointee with no qualms about warrantless wiretaps?

http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20090330043338420

Navy Secretary Nominee Drew Notice Over Divorce

Monday, March 30 2009 @ 04:33 AM EDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews

President Obama’s nominee for secretary of the Navy was involved in a divorce that drew national attention for his secret taping of a conversation between his wife and his family priest that he used against her in court proceedings.

Source - NY Times

The process of learning everything about a public company is virtually the same as that used to stalk someone. Think of this as a “Guide for Stalkers.” Add the links to your Research bookmark folder.

http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/020964.html

March 29, 2009

Competitive Intelligence - A Selective Resource Guide

Competitive Intelligence - A Selective Resource Guide: Sabrina I. Pacifici's completely revised and updated pathfinder focuses on leveraging selected reliable, focused, free and low cost sites and sources to effectively profile and monitor companies, markets, countries, people, and issues. This guide is a "best of list" of web, database and email alert products, services and tools, as well links to content specific sources produced by governments, academia, NGOs, the media and various publishers.

This is an interesting way to present data. Could be a useful example for my Data Analysis class.

http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/020965.html

March 29, 2009

More Interactive State Law Maps Available Online Posted by Highway Safety Organization

"The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) continues to enhance its online presentation of state laws with interactive US maps. The latest series of state law maps includes those for cellphones, safety belt use, child restraints, minitrucks, and low-speed vehicles. The maps help illustrate the extent to which US states are addressing these highway safety concerns."

For my students (and me)

http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/020969.html

March 29, 2009

YouTube Launches Educational Hub

YouTube Blog: "Earlier this week, we announced the launch of YouTube EDU, a hub for videos from over 100 of our leading university and college partners. Think campus tours, news about cutting-edge research, and lectures by professors and world-renowned thought leaders. There are also 200 full (and free!) courses, in a range of subjects, from some of the world's most prestigious universities, including IIT/IISc, MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and Yale. There are over 20,000 videos on YouTube EDU and growing."

This could be worth visiting every now and again to see software changes over time.

http://singlefunction.com/wappalyzer/

Wappalyzer

Wappalyzer is an interesting service that tracks the distribution of software on the web. So, if you are interested to know what are the most used apps in analytics, blogging, CMS or even message boards, Wappalyzer would answer that for you.