Archive for March, 2010

Tenable’s Marcus Ranum and Ron Gula discuss APT

I’ve attached a streaming webinar link.  Unfortunately it only plays under Windows using Media Player (VLC has no codec support yet).

Tenable APT Webinar (right click, Save As, make sure to open with media player)

Unpublicized Intelligence Victories

We hear so much about the mishandlings of security and anti-terrorism policies in the US. There’s a new anti-TSA bashing article published almost daily. “We’re spending too much money and resources on security theater and not enough on intelligence”

However, all is not lost! I came across an excellent article on the Guardian’s website. It’s about ‘Inside the world of Obama’s secret-service bodyguards‘ but it documents several foiled voilent plots thanks to good old fashioned intelligence.

Adobe Flash, HTML5, x264, YouTube…..

There’s been a lot of talk recently about Apple, the new iPad, and Jobs’ denouncement of Flash.  Supposedly Steve Jobs thinks Adobe has gotten lazy and he believes them to be evil similar to Google.  What does Jobs think he’s doing when designing hardware with proprietary connectors, closed hardware etc?

YouTube has a beta site with HTML5 + h264 (Firefox won’t work yet). An interesting comparison is to view a video with Flash and then view the same video in theirHTML5 beta site.  Open your task manager and watch your processor usage — notice a different?