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 Posted by SecExtra on July 08th, 2008

Dominique Levin, Senior Vice President at LogLogic helps us take a look at the past, present and future of log management for operations. Log management is not a new concept and indeed has been around for a long time. In the 80s it was the primary mechanism for fault analysis and management of computer systems. The sheer success of log data nearly killed it off before it really took off. The cacophony of log formats and the sheer volume of messages generated – up to 40 terabytes a month for a …

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 Posted by SecExtra on June 19th, 2008

Tier-3 says that the amusing tale of an Australian IT security specialist who discovered a number of security flaws after he hooked his coffee percolator up to the Web, has a warning message to all Internet users. "This security situation is an all too common one and, as the security specialist found, the flaws in the coffee-maker had not been patched by the vendor, despite the fact that the Jura F90 percolator is marketed as fully Internet-compatible," said Geoff Sweeney, CTO of the behavioural analysis IT security company. "Making …

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 Posted by SecExtra on May 18th, 2008

As far as ‘green’ computing is concerned, the IT industry does not have a particularly good record. In the past, it has been poor in a whole range of ‘green’ areas, including power consumption, the use of toxic substances, over-packaging, air conditioning and product life cycle. However, customer demand is now causing ‘green’ issues to become increasingly important in IT. Companies are looking more and more at implementing ‘green’ policies, both in their use of IT systems and in the design, manufacture and disposal of computer equipment. Those …

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 Posted by SecExtra on May 13th, 2008

Of course you wouldn’t be surprised to hear security experts say that the number of computer threats continues to grow.  Putting ethics aside for a moment, if we had seen a single measly threat in the last twelve months, we could legitimately say that the number of pieces of malware has grown.  But this is not what is happening.  According to independent testing house AV-test.org, 2007 saw 5.5 million unique malware samples on the web – a whopping 460 …

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 Posted by SecExtra on May 05th, 2008

Fortify Software, says that this week’s reports of a rash of SQL attacks on Web sites should make software developers sit up and take notice. "Newswire reports suggest that hundreds of thousands of Web site have been hit by a mass SQL attack. This is symptomatic of hackers developing highly sophisticated and semi-automated attack routines," said Jacob West, Manager of Fortify’s Security Research Group. West added that “The script or tool behind the attack …