Vendors
Squinting at Security Drivers and Perspective-based Biases
While doing some thinking on threat modelling I started examining what the usual drivers of security spend and controls are in an organisation. I’ve spent some time on multiple fronts, security management (been audited, had CIOs push for priorities), security auditing (followed workpapers and audit plans), pentesting (broke in however we could) and security consulting (tried to help people fix stuff) and even dabbled with trying to sell some security…
VMWare enters the cloud computing foray
BusinessWeek reports that VMWare has launched a new product aimed at establishing it as a competitor in the cloud computing space. -snip- Dubbed the Virtual Data Center Operating System (VDC-OS), the software creates a bank of computers, storage devices, and networking equipment that a company can tap at will, as computing needs arise—say, during a December spike in Web traffic for an online retailer. -snip- VMWare is the leet, so…
If you run Debian (or a Debian Derivative, like Ubuntu)…
Then you probably should get on this one… [Problems with Random Number Generator] While it looks like an arb openssl bug, 2 seconds of reading should get you to: -snip- It is strongly recommended that all cryptographic key material which has been generated by OpenSSL versions starting with 0.9.8c-1 on Debian systems is recreated from scratch. && Affected keys include SSH keys, OpenVPN keys, DNSSEC keys, and key material for…
Amazon SimpleDB – Outsource your database??
Amazon announced the beta of Amazon SimpleDB without that much fanfare, but it is an interesting trend to watch.. Essentially amazon are giving the power of a database to people used to excel and simple queries, backed by their massively optimised infrastructure. It will make popping up a web shop even more trivial than it has been in the past, and i guess continues along the growing trend of allowing…
The proof of the pudding ?
Royal pingdom did a quick check on what was running at some of the more popular sites on the Internet and end up with the following table: Its intersting for a whole bunch of reasons that im currently too sleep y to write about.. (sleepy??? must be old age?)(or the flu pills im taking) The first thing that was interesting to me was the suprising lack of BSD ? i…
VMWare Fusion, i love you not, i love you…
ok.. some of you in the office would have heard me whine when vmware fusion recently started taking my whole machine down occasionally. The joy of it being the whole machine is that ive lost my firefox profile, and managed to turf my osx preferences twice since this started happening.. Through meticulous checking i tracked down that the problem started “the day i blogged about how much i love vmware…
VMware for OSX (Fusion) – Beta 4
VMware have just released beta4 of its Fusion product for OSX. The initial beta was hard to justify and a little flaky, which allowed Parallels to take an early lead. We still have people in the office who swear by parallels.. But.. in my book VMware has just been such a life saver since we first started making heavy use of it (about 6 years ago) that i figured it…
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