I read about a startup (Altor Networks) that has developed a virtual firewall for VMware hypevisor. It is basically a virtual appliance that you plug into your virtual environment to act as a firewall between your virtual switches and virtual machines. It also wraps firewall policies for each VM so that even when migrated, the VMs will still be protected.
A woman from Gothenburg, Sweden logs into her internet bank to pay some bills only to find more than $1 BILLION (yes you read right) in her account - a local news website reports.
A very interesting article by Jesper Johansson and Roger Grimes both of Microsoft. It challenges a commonly displayed attitude of pouring scorn on security by obscurity and concludes that
There are pros and cons to any scheme, and the right approach for one organization does not necessarily fit a different organization. In the end, this becomes [...]
TrendMicro reports having found what could be a rootkit in an enterprise infosecurity software. The rootkit-churning vendor is the same one that published Sony MicroVault USM-F fingerprint reader discovered last year. What other products has this vendor shipped?
I just stumbled upon a book in the works about Beautiful Security. It is being published by O’Reilly and will be available April 2009. Available for pre-order on Amazon now. Apparently it will have many industry experts taking on ‘beautiful’ approach to security.
I’m curious to know what the whole book will be about as I [...]
