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.

In case you neded a place to start in evaluating the steps required for building a Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) , look no further. CERT/CC has released the Action List for Developing a Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) .

In the wake of the latest PDF / ZIP spam surge, many security analysts and vendors have taken a shot at explaining this phenomenon. It is the case of GFI Software who released an interesting whitepaper called “Attachment spam – the latest trend”.