Interesting Information Security Bits for 11/02/2009

Good afternoon everybody! I hope your day is going well. Here are today's Interesting Information Security Bits from around the web. A very good article on an issue that we need to think about as those who are very social media focused are working in our organizations. Lifestyle Hackers CSO Online Security and Risk Tags: ( social-media [...]

Good afternoon everybody! I hope your day is going well.

Here are today’s Interesting Information Security Bits from around the web.

  1. A very good article on an issue that we need to think about as those who are very social media focused are working in our organizations.
    Lifestyle Hackers – CSO Online – Security and Risk
    Tags: ( social-media )
  2. You know you’ve been wanting to try it.
    Electric Alchemy: Cracking Passwords in the Cloud: Breaking PGP on EC2 with EDPR
    Tags: ( passwords cloud cracking )
  3. Wonder what the latest changes to MA 201 CMR 17.00 are? Jack does us all a wonderful service by showing us the differences.
    Uncommon Sense Security: diff MA 201 CMR 17.00
    Tags: ( ma-201-cmr-17 )
  4. Part two of SynJunkie’s latest story is up.
    Syn: Bobs Double Penetration Adventure – Part 2
    Tags: ( story wifi pentest )
  5. The latest version of Microsoft’s Security Intelligence Report is available.
    Download details: Microsoft Security Intelligence Report volume 7 (January – June 2009)
    Tags: ( intelligence report microsoft )
  6. This post points out that we really need to be able to communicate with non-technical audiences. It then points to a new SANS short course that helps us learn how to do that more effectively. Looks very interesting.
    Keys to Professional Communication | Courses, Training | Enclave Forensics
    Tags: ( presenting speaking writing )
  7. This page contains links to a wealth of information on psychology and information security. Fascinating stuff that will keep you busy for quite some time.
    Hat tip: Adam @ The New School of Information Security Blog
    Psychology and Security Resource Page
    Tags: ( psychology )
  8. Here is the third and final part of SpyLogic’s Enterprise Open Source Intelligence Gathering series. It focuses on monitoring and social media policies.
    Enterprise Open Source Intelligence Gathering – Part 3 Monitoring and Social Media Policies — spylogic.net
    Tags: ( gathering intelligence )
  9. This is a nicely detailed post on using OWASP ESAPI for output validation. You are validating your output, right? It is actual the second in a series. The first part on input validation is linked to at the beginning and is also worthy of a gander.
    Output Validation using the OWASP ESAPI << Security Ninja
    Tags: ( output-validation owasp esapi )
  10. Anton posits that FUD is good sometimes. Interesting perspective. The New School Security blog has an interseted reponse too: http://newschoolsecurity.com/2009/10/just-say-no-to-fud/
    A Treatise on FUD – fudsec.com
    Tags: ( iis fud )

That’s it for today. Have fun!

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