Cyber Threats

It seems the Senate is taking an interest in piracy.... "The Copyright Czar , known formally as the “Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator,” will report directly to the White House and Congress while creating and executing nationwide anti-piracy initiatives."

Based on the below mentioned post on 0-day.  Chrome is being closely looked at by the security world.  This is likely because everyone has such high hopes and standards for anything Google does. 0-Day Blog

Google Chrome vulnerabilities being talked about, I disagree with some folks that feel this tarnishes Google.  This is a beta and their first real attempt at a web browser.  Overall I'm liking it, it lacks some enterprise polish, but should do nicely for surfing normal websites. More talk and details regarding spammers using "legit" hosting services to pettle redirects to malicious websites and content. GD

Just read an article at Network World .  It seems spammers are using ImageShack's services to upload .swf files to redirect users to malicious websites.

It is an extremely fast browser which makes it great for gmail, myspace, and facebook sites. Its lacks a few things however including  Citrix, Sirius, and Daltek support.  Those being a few things I use pretty regularly. I would like to see an option to make the main navigation bar icons smaller, because in IE and FF I always shrink the icons to the smallest possible. It is also vulnerable to the old Safari carpet bomb flaw,  researcher  Aviv Raff   discovered that he could combine two vulnerabilities — a flaw in Apple Safari (WebKit) and a Java bug discussed at this year’s Black Hat conference, to trick users into launching executables direct from the new browser. ZDNET Blog PC World Just my thoughts.