Here’s something I hadn’t seen before: I IM’d a friend of mine at a Big Company and the message got rejected because it included a URL. I have to suppose that it’s any URL that gets bounced, but who knows? So the workaround? I sent the text for a Google... Pito's Technology Blog »
The root or super user is the most powerful user in a Linux operating system, it has power to cripple you system to a piece of crap if it lands in the wrong hands. Root user is also synonymous with the Windows Administrator for Windows based system. We... (posted on 18 Jul 2008 by Techie Buzz)
Bruce Schneier recommends The Quixotic Quest for Invulnerability: Assessing the Costs, Benefits, and Probabilities of Protecting the Homeland, which concludes amongst other things, that we abandon any effort to imagine a terrorist target list.Maybe, but... (posted on 18 Jul 2008 by Presto Vivace Blog)
TaoSecuritySince we're talking military cyber operations, a blog reader asked for my opinion of the new story U.S. Army challenges USAF on network warfare. I saw this first hand at a cyber conference recently. The Air Force colonel who will be vice... (posted on 18 Jul 2008 by Presto Vivace Blog)
Pingdom takes a look at data center security and the threat posed by physical break-ins, as opposed to the cyber threats that enter through the network. The post reviews the growing list of recent incidents involving hardware thefts at colcoation... (posted on 18 Jul 2008 by Data Center Knowledge)
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] It dismays me sometimes when I see some bloggers and the stuff they write.   Only this morning, I was looking at someone’s blog and he was talking about a security hole that he had discovered in Gmail.   He... (posted on 18 Jul 2008 by Geeks are Sexy Technology News)
Security metrics represent a great untamed wilderness for organizations trying to determine both their risk profile and the effectiveness of the resources they have allocated to their security program. When I first became a security person after a career... (posted on 18 Jul 2008 by bloginfosec.com)

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