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Marcus Ranum has a podcast
Exhalted internet security guru Marcus Ranum has posted a podcast, complete with presentation slides to go with it. He promises this is the first of a series (I certainly hope so, but making podcasts takes much more time and effort than blogging, and Marcus rarely updates his blog). Marcus is generally credited with creating the [...]
Read the rest of this entry...Notes on Secure Mississauga 2007
Yesterday the group behind the CISSP certification, the ISC2 held a one-day security seminar with speakers discussing the state of IT security, threat modeling, privacy and disclosure laws and other interesting topics. The ISC2 is holding several of these around the world this year… mainly as opportunities for CISSPs to add a few more education credits (you need [...]
Read the rest of this entry...U.S. military to standardize Windows hardening
The lede of today’s SANS Newsbites claims that the U.S. military is about to start using standardized "secure configurations" of Windows operation systems across all services: "Over the next several weeks, you’ll begin to hear about US military services standardizing on secure configurations of common operating systems (VISTA and XP to start) (1) so they [...]
Read the rest of this entry...Open Document Format approved by OSI
The world now has an open office file format approved by the International Organization for Standardization (OSI). The Open Document Format (ODF) used primarily by the free OpenOffice suite was formally approved on November 30 as ISO/IEC 26300:2006. The folks at Ars Technical have more. This is great news for further adoption of OpenOffice… ISO [...]
Read the rest of this entry...Is Microsoft targeting Google through the Novell deal?
Many analysts are picking apart yesterday’s announcement of a patent-licensing deal between Novell and Microsoft. It’s probable that this is the result of MS threatening to sue Novell over software patents, a strategy first made public in the infamous Halloween II memo. I guess this marks the end of both Novell and SuSE Linux, the [...]
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