Google Maps Mania: More Google Maps Creation Tools and Resources
It's amazing what people are doing with google Maps these days.
Also this is , to me, a good demonstration of what Google are best at. Innovative service with a good programmable interface, leads to huge number of people getting involved...
Of course, the question remains, as with a lot of google's newer services, How will they make money off it?
Schneier on Security: Impressive Phishing Attack
Wow phishers with genuine SSL certs, issued by Certificate authoritys that are installed, by default, in every browser on the planet...
Just goes to show, when there's money involved the criminals will evolve and get real smart real quick...
As to the SSL cert providers assertions that they rigourously check SSL cert applications... well yeah.
Insights into Information Security: IPSEC everywhere? Bad idea
Excellent post pointing out why encryption can be a bad thing. It sounds counter-intuitive at first, in that security people will spend a lot of time telling you to use things like SSH instead of telnet and SFTP instead of FTP because the they use encryption...
but too much encryption can be a bad thing. It can blind devices like Intrusion detection systems and actually help an attacker, if that attacker has already broken into an endpoint system, and in the majority of attack scenarios that will be the case...
so the net effect of encrypting everything is actually a decrease in security...
Sunbelt BLOG: Tracking down spammers
An interesting looking list of online tools for tracking down spammers..
