General: October 2005 Archives
This months meeting of the Northern Virginia chapter of ISSA is at Oracle's Reston campus on Thursday, November 18th at 6:00 pm. Guest Speaker is Dr Steven Crocker, long-time leader in the Internet community, speaking on the upcoming rollout of the new DNS Security Protocol. As usual, the meeting is free and open to all security professionals. Doors are open at 5:30 for food and networking.
That sounds pretty interesting. its tough to get away during the semester. Right now it looks like I have a project due the next day.
I saw over at news.com that Kerio is dropping their personal firewall product because they are unable to compete with bundled services offered by their competitors. McAfee, Symantec, and Zone Labs all bundle their personal firewall with other product making it a more enticing product. Doesn't Microsoft get fined and sued for activity like this? I think Kerio has overlooked a new profit center for their company. Sueing the people who put out better products. hey its worked for SUN and Real.
http://news.com.com/Cisco+extends+NAC+security+to+switches/2100-7355_3-5898169.html?part=rss&tag=5898169&subj=news
Redmond Magazine really drives me nuts. It used to be MCP Magazine. It was a magazine for Microsoft Certified Professionals. Now its just another PC magazine. The magazine seems to think that Microsoft users are just hoping for something better that deep down (or even at the surface) everyone must hate Microsoft. Why do I think this? Every issue 1/3 of the articles seem to be about alternatives to Microsoft and how much better they are.
The register had an article yesterday on the new Common Malware Enumeration (CME) database. David Perry, global director of education at Trend Micro said this will do little to solve confusion, "Now every piece of malware will just have 18 names and a number."
Graham Cluley of Sophos says that "big-hitting viruses will be tied together with a common thread." That's great, but that already happens with big viruses.
Virus naming is from an era of antivirus competition. Where each stove to discover a virus first and have the right to name it. Perhaps instead of going for an antivirus collective naming scheme, we need to return to the era of antivirus competition. Instead of writing open letters about the lack of a common virus naming scheme causing confusion, we should be writing open letters about the antivirus definition update model not adequately protecting our computers. I want something better.
I blogged back in March about how annoying it is when people just do a cut and paste job when creating their own blog entries.
Matt Broadstock just posted something similar over at myitforum and he was freaking pilloried for having an opinion. I guess he forgot only posts cut and pasted from other locations are allowed. ;)
Oracle's president said on Friday his company would rather beat Salesforce.com than buy the much smaller provider of customer management software.
