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1. "Cybersecurity research gets $7 million"…In August,
the National Center for Advanced Secure Systems Research (NCASSR) was granted
$7 million for cybersecurity research. See
http://zdnet.com.com/Cybersecurity+research+gets+247+million/2110-7347_3-5302924.html
2. "Tech industry presents less-than-unified defense"… If
hardware and software companies joined forces to shore up cybersecurity, cleaning
up the World Wide Web would not be such a daunting task.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2004-09-09-zombie-response_x.htm
3. "BBC to Open Content Floodgates"… This fall, the BBC
plans to share its professionally produced audio and video clips over the Internet,
making them freely available for noncommercial viewing, sharing, and editing.
Clips from the its natural history archives will be the first to be released.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,63857,00.html
4. "Windows Update"… PC Magazine's in-depth review of
Windows XP SP2. Sebastian Rupley's article gives you an under-the-hood glimpse
of some of the new security improvements.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1635634,00.asp
5. US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletins… This bi-weekly report provides
a nice technical summary of current security issues. (If you're interested,
you may sign up to receive these reports via email at https://www.us-cert.gov/cas/signup.html )
https://www.us-cert.gov/cas/bulletins/
6. Reiser4 Filesystem…Learn more about this fast, atomic filesystem
with military-grade security.
http://www.namesys.com/
7. INFOSYSSEC: "The Security Portal for Information System Security Professionals"… A
website designed to help students and security professionals locate and consolidate
Internet resources pertaining to information system security.
http://www.infosyssec.com/
8. "Q&A: Tom Leighton, chief scientist at Akamai"… A
Computerworld interview concerning the DDoS attack on Akamai Technologies last
spring.
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,93875,00.html
9. "Judges rule file-sharing software legal"… This
August 19 decision by a federal appeals court ruled that distributors of software
using the Gnutella and FastTrack P2P technologies are not liable for copyright
infringement committed by users of their software. The controversial ruling
upheld the legality of such filesharing programs as Grokster and Morpheus.
http://news.com.com/Judges+rule+file-sharing+software+legal/2100-1032_3-5316570.html
10. "SpaceMonger"… If you're a
Windows user, you may want to check out this tool, which keeps track of the
free space on your computer.
http://www.werkema.com/software/spacemonger.html