Security stuff:
Damballa says that botnet infections in enterprises have increased and these could be custom made for the targeted organisation
"The bad guys are also finding that deploying a small botnet inside a targeted organization is a more efficient way of stealing information than deploying a traditional exploit on a specific machine"
These botnets are very intelligent
"they are typically more automated than bots in the big botnets" and "are also increasingly using more and different types of malware rather than one particular family in order to evade detection"
Security monkey has has posted What Does The Internet Know About You? providing good advice & tips for protecting your privacy on the Internet
Looks like the state of affairs with merchants/retailers are so bad that this post on darkreading hints cash: Debit Or Credit? Neither
Neat post providing information about malware characteristic Categories of Common Malware Traits
This white paper is a must read for any one thinking about NAC and of course users also; A technical exploration of why NAC is failing
PCI Virtualization Special Interest Group (SIG) is addressing the PCI DSS virtualization compliance questions in the next update due next year
General stuff:
This writeup has some good pointers for those CCNA's wondering what next after CCNA?
Cyborg's could become a reality Pentagon has developed a cyborg beetle... hope my son will see a real terminator kind of cyborg :-)
MIT has conceptualised and is developing a camera-glasses & implantable microchip that could help blind gain some amount of vision. Though this is ground breaking stuff the article also cites couple of other similar efforts in progress as early as 2002.
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