Links for August 7th 2009

Thought I'd start contributing interesting links. Mostly security related stuff concerning computers, networking et al.
  • Incidents: The twitter DDoS incident apparently was triggered from disagreement with a sole blogger. Facebook got some heat from this too.
  • Security: Databases are often bypassed when it comes to securing information. Even at large companies. Here are some guidelines to cure that illness.
  • Interesting: So you thought DNA only was good for designing/programming your bodily functions and shapes? How wrong have you been? Nano-beachball, anyone?
  • Big Brother: Has Apple had enough of replacing gadgets due to consumers handling their equipment wrongly? This patent seems to be some kind of "Black Box" equivalent for iPhones/iPods/iWhatever that records abusive handling of Apple gadgets so the customers can't claim replacement too easily.
  • Patch: Microsoft hasn't had much of a holiday season. Busy bees at Redmond have been releasing patches at a blazing rate during the last month, and not only on the holy monthly Patch Tuesdays. Next week Tuesday come we will get 5 critical and 4 important patches delivered. Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft ISA Server, Microsoft BizTalk Server, .NET and Windows OS are affected. All 5 of the critical patches involves some kind of remote exploit. *shiver*
  • Hacks: Last week we saw the British MI5 web site hack. This week over a dozen of White House .gov sites had visitors from the evil side. This time it is Joomla that is being blamed for the breaches.
  • Products: This web security scanner (Websecurify) seems very interesting. It is still in very early stages and v0.2 only runs on MacOS, but will, according to the web site, soon be released on both Windows and Linux platforms.
  • Trivia: Billy Lee Riley (born 1933) passed away last weekend. May the Flying saucers rock him in his Red Hot heaven.

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