Archive for November, 2006

What Would Spyware Do?

November 21, 2006 by Sunil James

Kevin Borders, who worked with the ASERT this past summer, is today’s guest blogger. Kevin’s working on some interesting technology being developed at the University of Michigan that we thought you’d enjoy learning more about. As always, we welcome any questions, comments or concerns: We cannot always rely on signatures to detect spyware and other [...]

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RSS for Security Events

November 20, 2006 by Jose Nazario

RSS has been a boon to me for tracking the hundreds of sources I monitor for security information. These include blogs, news sites, vendor sites and security information clearing houses, all of which publish information via RSS. Using an RSS aggregator, I can consume this and build up a local database of information. If you [...]

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Bits and Pieces: November 12

November 12, 2006 by Jose Nazario

A few things caught my eye this week, so I’ll post them here. After Virus Bulletin, I had a nice conversation with Ryan at eWeek that he recorded for the OnSecurity Podcast: The Rise of For-Profit Botnets [MP3, duration: 17:38]. I had never done a podcast before, and I don’t usually listen to them (though [...]

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