The Security Eunoia

The Register has reported that an online payment service mycheckfree.com has lost control of at least two of its domains to a crime gang believed to be based in Eastern Europe.
Possible explanation?
It’s also unclear how the culprits managed to hijack the domains. While security experts say DNS poisoning wasn’t out of the question, the more [...]

In its publication titled Technology-Induced Challenges in Privacy and Data Protection in Europe, ENISA (European Network And Information Security Agency) made 13 recommendations aimed at taking personal data protection more seriously than it has been in the past. I’m particularly interested in recommendations 5 and 9.

Secunia, a vulnerability management firm, has given home users an opportunity to improve their security with its release of Personal Software Inspector (PSI) version 1.0. Released for Windows, PSI aims to raise the security bar by checking and updating all the software installed on the home PC with the latest security patches. Download your copy [...]

So what is security monitoring? It could be any of security (information, event, information & event) monitoring. Whatever name you choose to call it I’m referring to any kind of monitoring with the help of software and with the primary aim of detecting security policy violations possibly before it is too late to act. With any breach of security policy, there are cyber observables and an outcome.