Security Briefings – Monday, Dec. 8th

Good day!

I had a little ‘down’ time this weekend. I made a few lists, I put up a Christmas tree and counted the days until the holiday. However you celebrate through the season, I hope you take some time to enjoy it with your friends and family.

Cheers!

The Intern

1. DataLossDB announces awesome new feature – Emergent Chaos
2. Brute force SSH attack confounds defenders – The Register
3. Infrastructure 2.0 and Virtualized/Cloud Networking: Wait, Where’s my DNS/DHCP Server Again? – Rational Survivability
4. Microsoft Security Bulletin, December 2008 – Microsoft 6 critical fixes will be released tomorrow.
5. New trojan in mass DNS hijack – The Register
6. Happiness is contagious in social networks – CNN, Health See? Twitter IS good for you!
7. Amazon.com Hack Was a University Project – Wired, Threat Level

Enjoy your ride on the super worldwide tubenet web highway&#153, today!

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