I woke up this morning to find a very ugly iGoogle homepage. It appears a part of the Google infrastructure is down and it seems to be the gmodules.com area. This will cause iGoogle to not fully load all the way and other Google gadgets on websites will hang and take a while to time out before allowing the rest of the page to load. Some lines at the top state: 'Home' tab has … [Read more...]
Mozilla Gets Firefox 3.6.2 Out the Door Early
Mozilla has released Firefox 3.6.2 a full week ahead of schedule. The development and release of this latest version was accelerated to address a highly critical vulnerability that could allow remote execution of code which Mozilla has been providing updates on through their security blog. Due to this vulnerability, a department of the German government had just advised its … [Read more...]
What’s the Harm in McAfee SiteAdvisor?
I'm torn on what stance I want to take on this issue I stumbled across today regarding McAfee SiteAdvisor. The IT security side of me says that any tool that prevents people from stumbling upon bad sites and malicious downloads is a good thing but the webmaster side of me says that any tool that is not moderated well and does not update frequently is bad for websites and thus … [Read more...]
Cyber Shockwave – A War Game We Lost
On February 16th, the United States government participated in a war game that was different from any others in recent years. Moving from the conventional attacks, threats, and worries of the past this most recent war game started with our digital infrastructure. An app was downloaded by over 20 million smart phones called March Madness. This app activated a malicious bit of … [Read more...]
Malware Taxonomy
A working group has formed to move towards establishing official language and terminology for describing malware to assist communicating and fighting malware. The working group is trying to establish the Malware Attribute Enumeration and Characterization (MAEC) language. There are a number of benefits to establishing a common malware terminology: eliminating innacuracy in … [Read more...]