It’s that time of the week again: The time where we take a look at what local security bloggers have been up to. Not a lot of blogs this week and history is made on our site as Richard Bejtlich gets all the top 3 spots with his blog post.
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And without further ado … here are the top picks for this week.
#3 – Securities Through Obscurity and Privacy in Practice: Does security through obscurity and privacy in practice really work? Click here to find out what theharmonyguy has to say about this topic using the 2.8GB published database of information collected from public Face book pages as an example.
#2 – Spam via Face book Events Highlights Ongoing Challenges: We’ve all received invites to Face book events, whether be it spam or not!! The title of the blog says everything about the blog.Click hereto see what theharmonyguy has to say about the ongoing challenges.
#1 – Why am I so Paranoid? Oh yeah, Black Hat is Going on: This topic took everyone by surprise and shocked non security professionals alike. In case you haven’t heard it, “A researcher by the name of Barnaby Jack developed his own custom rootkit for ATM machines that could be installed by dialing into the devices and exploiting the remote management software.” The black hat conference has been on buzz with this startling revelation.Click hereto read what Walt Turnes had to say about it.
Well, that’s all this week. Be sure to check back next week for more great blog posts from local security bloggers.
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