Comments on: RSS for Security Events http://ddos.arbornetworks.com/2006/11/rss-for-security-events/ A weblog dedicated to educating the community on security threats that matter Mon, 07 May 2012 13:07:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Pete Markowsky http://ddos.arbornetworks.com/2006/11/rss-for-security-events/comment-page-1/#comment-3756 Pete Markowsky Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:22:54 +0000 http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2006/11/rss-for-security-events/#comment-3756 Another often overlooked benefit of RSS is that with everything in a simple xml based format, you can trivially splice and dice feeds together or apart. Services that already do this are things such as feedburner. This sort of lets you create meta feeds or to create a feed of highlighted events based on multiple sources with a little bit of hacking. -Pete Another often overlooked benefit of RSS is that with everything in a simple xml based format, you can trivially splice and dice feeds together or apart. Services that already do this are things such as feedburner. This sort of lets you create meta feeds or to create a feed of highlighted events based on multiple sources with a little bit of hacking.

-Pete

]]> By: dre http://ddos.arbornetworks.com/2006/11/rss-for-security-events/comment-page-1/#comment-3745 dre Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:24:01 +0000 http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2006/11/rss-for-security-events/#comment-3745 i prefer this rss applciation (mac os x only) - <a href="http://www.nullriver.com/index/products/newsticker/" rel="nofollow">newsticker</a>. when not using mac os x - i use aggregators like feedstr in a firefox live bookmark... and the <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2325/" rel="nofollow">rss ticker</a> extension. yes, it can get slow if you have over 20 or so different feeds. i also use bookmarklets such as del.icio.us and a few others for web-application vulnerability assessment work. i don't usually use RSS for vulnerability management and tracking, but more for keeping up with blogs. i prefer gmail or del.icio.us for tracking security bugs or new virus alerts. combined with tools like <a href="https://cassandra.cerias.purdue.edu/main/index.html" rel="nofollow">cassandra</a> and <a href="http://advchk.unixgu.ru/" rel="nofollow">advcheck</a>... it's a lot easier to read only what i'm interested in (instead of the entire Secunia RSS feed). i prefer this rss applciation (mac os x only) – newsticker.

when not using mac os x – i use aggregators like feedstr in a firefox live bookmark… and the rss ticker extension. yes, it can get slow if you have over 20 or so different feeds. i also use bookmarklets such as del.icio.us and a few others for web-application vulnerability assessment work.

i don’t usually use RSS for vulnerability management and tracking, but more for keeping up with blogs. i prefer gmail or del.icio.us for tracking security bugs or new virus alerts. combined with tools like cassandra and advcheck… it’s a lot easier to read only what i’m interested in (instead of the entire Secunia RSS feed).

]]> By: Chris Calvert http://ddos.arbornetworks.com/2006/11/rss-for-security-events/comment-page-1/#comment-3730 Chris Calvert Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:09:14 +0000 http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2006/11/rss-for-security-events/#comment-3730 I use RSS extensively, and I'm in the midst of building an intranet portal which aggregates feeds (including this blog ;)) into category, source, and day sorted content. I have ~20 feeds coming in right now, most of which maps to sites I've contributed to Sunil's InfoSec Google Co-Op project. There isn't a shortage of good feeds out there, and hopefully a few more vendors will jump on the bandwagon (*poke* Juniper *poke*)... I use RSS extensively, and I’m in the midst of building an intranet portal which aggregates feeds (including this blog ;)) into category, source, and day sorted content. I have ~20 feeds coming in right now, most of which maps to sites I’ve contributed to Sunil’s InfoSec Google Co-Op project.

There isn’t a shortage of good feeds out there, and hopefully a few more vendors will jump on the bandwagon (*poke* Juniper *poke*)…

]]> By: Tyler Reguly http://ddos.arbornetworks.com/2006/11/rss-for-security-events/comment-page-1/#comment-3696 Tyler Reguly Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:15:17 +0000 http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2006/11/rss-for-security-events/#comment-3696 I agree that RSS feeds are a great way to stay up-to-date on information. however I happen to enjoy the browser based RSS Feeds. I've got 195 feeds in my bloglines feed and I've yet to have any problems... I started with an external RSS Readers, then I went with FireFox plugins... and then the in-browser solution and so far I've enjoyed it the most... It doesn't seem to be slowed as I add more feeds, which is what happened with the Firefox Plugins. I agree that RSS feeds are a great way to stay up-to-date on information. however I happen to enjoy the browser based RSS Feeds.

I’ve got 195 feeds in my bloglines feed and I’ve yet to have any problems… I started with an external RSS Readers, then I went with FireFox plugins… and then the in-browser solution and so far I’ve enjoyed it the most… It doesn’t seem to be slowed as I add more feeds, which is what happened with the Firefox Plugins.

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