Eleven computer security companies have joined together to create the Cyber Security Industry Alliance, "an advocacy group dedicated to the improvement of cyber security through public policy, education and technology-focused initiatives."
Retired lieutenant general John Gordon, presidential assistant and advisor to the Homeland Security Council, said programmers are to blame for insecure software.
RSA Security has introduced a blocking technology that they say would protect consumers from being tracked after buying products that contain radio frequency identification tags.
The Department of Homeland Security's Protected Critical Infrastructure Information program is meant to encourage companies to disclose security vulnerabilities in their systems; but some say the new program will prove counterproductive.
The FBI's Northwest Cybercrime Task Force is on the hunt for the individual who posted Windows source code to the Internet, the Bureau confirmed. One new vulnerability has already been discovered as a result of the leak.
Next week is Developer Security Webcast Week according to Microsoft; the company plans to offer a five-day series of online seminars and tutorials for Windows developers.
The Pentagon has abandoned the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment, which would have allowed overseas U.S. citizens to vote over the Internet this fall, because the system is judged insecure.
"A month after the federal CAN-SPAM Act went into effect, most anti-spam vendors say that the new legislation hasn't cut down on the glut of junk mail in users' mailboxes."
Jack examines Linux on the Mainframe, Practical Unix & Internet Security, Third Edition, and the new edition of Stevens' classic Unix Network Programming, Volume 1: The Socket Networking API.
Lincoln Stein's Crypt::CBC module is a pure Perl implementation of Cipher Block Chaining. I'll illustrate how Crypt::CBC works in two Perl scripts. The first, khazad, shows how to encrypt simple messages. The second illustrates the use of Serpent, a 128-bit block cipher that uses a 128-bit key.
