Interesting Information Security Bits for 11/03/2009

Good afternoon everybody! I hope your day is going well. Here are today's Interesting Information Security Bits from around the web. A few days ago I pointed out an article that discussed some issues with the default settings for UAC in Windows 7. This article shows that the criticism in the other article is well earned. Windows 7 [...]

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

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

  1. A few days ago I pointed out an article that discussed some issues with the default settings for UAC in Windows 7. This article shows that the criticism in the other article is well earned.
    Windows 7 vulnerable to 8 out of 10 viruses | Chester Wisniewski’s Blog
    Tags: ( virus windows-7 )
  2. Interested in cross-subdomain cookie attacks? Check out the paper that mckt wrote. It is based on his presentation at Toorcon recently.
    Skeptikal.org: Cross-subdomain Cookie Attacks
    Tags: ( webappsec exploits )
  3. Thinking about virtualizing your databases? Make sure you are doing so for any of the mythical reasons that Adriane addresses in this article.
    Securosis Blog | Myths Surrounding Databases in Virtual Environments
    Tags: ( virtualization database )

That’s it for today. Have fun!

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Kevin


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