Tenable Network Security Podcast - Episode 7
October 13, 2009<p>Welcome to the Tenable Network Security Podcast - Episode 7</p> <h3>Announcements</h3> <ul><li>New blog post going up today on the experiences at Cyberdawn, a cyber exercise that puts hackers against defenders in a realistic environment.</li> <li>Attention Security Center customers! A new version of Security Center, 3.4.5, has been released and is available for download in the customer support portal (Security Center customers can find the<a href="https://discussions.nessus.org/message/3615#3615"> release notes</a> the <a href="http://discussions.nessus.org">discussion portal</a>). It includes such improvements as web application scanning support.</li> <li>Paul Asadoorian was interviewed on <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/securabitsite/~3/vqaj5nGH63I/">Securabit Episode 40</a> and discusses all things Nessus and some of the features in our enterprise products such as Security Center and the Passive Vulnerability Scanner (PVS)</li> <li>Paul Asadoorian spoke at the <a href="http://www.louisvilleinfosec.com/">Louisville Infosec conference</a> on web application security on October 7, 2009</li> <li>As always be sure to check out our blog at <a href="http://blog.tenablesecurity.com">http://blog.tenablesecurity.com</a></li></ul> <h3>Interview: John Bos - <a href="http://www.cybrexllc.com/">Cybrex, LLC</a></h3> <table class="image" align="center"> <tr><td><div style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://tenable.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8345495f669e20120a5e061d8970b-pi" alt="John_Bos.png" border="0" width="320" height="240" /></div></td></tr> <caption align="bottom"><strong>John Bos joins us to talk about his 10 years of experience with the Defcon CTF and his team "sk3wl0fr00t".</strong></caption> </table>
Logs of Our Fathers
September 22, 2009<p>At USENIX in Anaheim, back in 2005, George Dyson treated us to a fantastic keynote speech about the early history of computing. You can catch a videotaped reprise of it <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/george_dyson_at_the_birth_of_the_computer.html" target="_blank">here, on the TED site</a>. I highly recommend it - there's lots of interesting and quirky stuff. I managed to talk him into giving me a copy of his powerpoint file, and subsequently tracked him down and am re-posting this material with his permission.</p> <h3>November, 1951 </h3> <p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/papers/ur-syslogs/first_syslog.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="375" src="http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/papers/ur-syslogs/t/first_syslog.jpg" width="500" /></a> <br /><strong>Machine Log #1</strong></p>
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