Sunday, March 18, 2007

Weekend Reading

Black Hat Woman - Joanna Rutkowska

She hacked the Windows Vista kernel, she administered a Blue Pill to an operating system, and she pioneered rootkit detection research, but Joanna Rutkowska doesn't know how to drive a car.

Read the article HERE.

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First Monday

Volume 12, Number 3 — 5 March 2007 [but running a bit late this month]

What open access research can do for Wikipedia
Five heuristics for designing and evaluating Web-based communities
The interaction between technologies and society
Metadata for All
The potential disruptive impact of Internet 2 based technologies

Read the articles HERE.

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Data Crash 2027

When you store all the ephemera and all the hard work you've done in your life on someone else's server -- Gmail, Flickr, etc. -- you risk a whole lot more than exposing your life to prying eyes.

Take a look HERE.

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The 59 Top Influencers in IT Security

Our list of the most influential security experts of 2007 - from corporate tech officers and government security types, to white hat hackers and bloggers.

Read the article HERE.

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News - or is it ?


Many of the websites I link to are excellent providers of news and information. BUT, as they derive their income from advertising, they are under extreme pressure to produce, ON A DAILY BASIS, relevant content.This obviously leads to the same stories appearing on a regular basis, albeit under slighly different headings.

And this has been a pretty slow news week, but if want more "news", try these...

Seven Steps to Safer WiFi - Dark Reading - March 14
Surf At Your Own Risk - Forbes - March 12
Smart USBs Gone Bad - Dark Reading - March 13

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