In the current DDOS attack on www.visa.com there might be obscure interests and classic botnets involved, but what strikes me is the first ever voluntary botnet made of thousands of home user computers running a bot which is controlled via IRC channels by the attackers.

There are plenty of reasons not to be afraid of security job cuts or market slowdown in the year ahead according to SANS 2008 Salary & Certification Survey

And since it’s illegal to operate an online casino business in US, where are the datacenters and all the servers that host zillions of online gambling websites

The biggest two online anti-phishing databases are PhishTank and Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). However, I noticed some big differences between these two organizations.