User generated content and i-catraz

Just was advised of a site called phishtank. Its pretty useful since www.antiphishing.org stopped archiving phishing emails.

It got me thinking how useful user generated content, the best thing about web 2.0 is becoming. If there is enough of a need its amazing what the community can come up with.

I'd like to see a virtual tar and feathering web site too for cyber crims :) Maybe that could be i-catraz as Eugene Kapersky alluded to at AusCERT.

No internet license for you!

Optimism vs Pessimism & Infosec

So in the current market place you can look at things in an optimistic
light or a pessimistic light.
With our black hat on organisations will spend less on IT and hence
security. Large IT security projects (like identity management) won't
get the business case approved. Incidents will increase and the sky
will fall, etc. etc.

With our yellow hat on, the pause on large IT projects will allow
security teams to focus on business as usual processes and legacy
systems. The increased awareness of insider threat will allow infosec
professionals to progress with smart tactical initiatives (like DLP) .
No matter the perspective infosec was a necessary evil in good times
and will be necessary and even more needed in bad.

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