Best of the Week – January 27, 2013

This week I found some articles about updates and new analysis of some important old topics. In the following lines you will find a selection of the best articles and resources.

Hope you enjoy it!

A couple of articles on Shamoon…
Team Cymru ‏@teamcymru Shamoon Malware Possibly Developed by Extremist Islamist Group from Saudi Arabia http://tinyurl.com/aofuxfd

N. Groeneveld ‏@nigroeneveld #Shamoon: Decapitating Saudi Aramco with the Sword of Justice http://bit.ly/WmRnhJ  #cyberwar #infosec

Oracle woes for Java…
Trusteer ‏@Trusteer Oracle’s Java Headache Worsens: http://bit.ly/10Nw7oU  via @jpmello < great article about #Java’s vulnerabilities and fake patch updates

Attacks and traffic maps…
Alan Woodward ‏@ProfWoodward Nice map showing real-time web attacks fro Akamai http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/dataviz1.html?WT.ac=security_l Reports claim Q3 2012 attack traffic traced to China in 1/3 cases.

Sony woes for playstation network data breach never end…
BrianHonan ‏@BrianHonan UK ICO fines Sony £250K for the security breach in 2011 “security measures in place were simply not good enough” http://www.ico.gov.uk/news/latest_news/2013/ico-news-release-2013.aspx

An interesting position about Diginotar case…
scl feed ‏@computersandlaw The DigiNotar Case: Internet Security is No Abstract Matter http://tinyurl.com/abun9qu

Assessing the risk is an evergreeen topic…
DarkReading ‏@DarkReading Measuring risk is a key to justifying new security spending. Here’s a roadmap for doing it http://twb.io/Xv2pON

*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from Punto 1 authored by Matteo Cavallini. Read the original post at: http://www.matteocavallini.com/2013/01/best-of-week-january-27-2013.html