The Kerberos Consortium goal is to establish Kerberos as the universal authentication platform for the world’s computer networks.

One of the innovative research presented in the report is the security model and risk posed by the various widgets which seem to be the hottest trend in GUI design.Either built for WWW, Windows Vista or Macintosh OSX Dashboard,the widgets are everywhere and Finjan found vulnerabilities in widgets and gadgets that enable attackers to gain control of user machines.

InfoWorld has announced the 2007 Best of Open Source in Security Awards and as far as I can see nothing new showed up in the awards list.

Security tools : Reflector for .NET; Security System Analyzer; Echo Mirage; soapUI

On Aug. 27, WASC released the Script Mapping Project which is intended to be an exhaustive refference on XSS vectors.What I fail to understand is why WASC didn’t include as a starting point RSnake’s excellent XSS Cheat Sheet. It’s not like they would be the first. OWASP already quotes RSnake’s work as a valuable resource.