today's compendium, and a jabber note

[Paul Vixie <paul () vix com>]

we lost power at jabber.tisf.net this morning, and so the
funsec () conference jabber tisf net conference room was down
for a few hours.  all is once again well.

and now the news.

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"Trojan horse installs antivirus program"
http://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-6128767.html?tag=6128767

        In addition to setting up a compromised computer to relay spam, one
        example of malicious software also installs Kaspersky Lab's antivirus
        program to get rid of competing malicious software.

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"Zombies continue to chase Windows PCs"
http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-6129235.html?tag=6129235

        Malicious remote control software continues to be one of the biggest
        threats to Windows PCs, according to a new Microsoft security report.

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"Diebold Source Code Disks Mailed to Maryland Democrat"
http://www.betanews.com/article/Diebold_Source_Code_Disks_Mailed_to_Maryland_Democrat/1161618740

        The Baltimore Sun is reporting that a former delegate in Maryland's
        state legislature, who is also both a well-known local philanthropist
        and critic of the state's election system, received an anonymously
        mailed package appearing to contain original source code diskettes
        used by Diebold Election Systems for machines used in that state's
        election in 2004.

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"High Assurance SSL Certificates Will NOT Eliminate Phishing"
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/post.html?CMP=OTC-3W3B95036222&ATT=High+Assurance+SSL+Certificates+Will+NOT+Eliminate+Phishing

        There seems to be a lot of talk about the new -Y´High Assurance SSL
        Certificates¡ to be introduced by Verisign. IE7 will be the first
        browser to support this type of a certificate. From my understanding,
        High Assurance SSL Certificates have nothing to do with better
        encryption, but the process an entity must go through before being
        granted the certificate.

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"IronPort taps Webroot for anti-spyware"
http://news.com.com/2110-7355_3-6129854.html?tag=6129854

        E-mail security company IronPort has tapped anti-spyware specialist
        Webroot for its new Web security appliances. IronPort is using the
        Webroot RockSafe E1000 SDK in its new S-Series appliances, security
        gear designed to block threats, including spyware, at the network
        perimeter.

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