Link: http://titssn.net/mess/

Well, it’s just a few more days to our Mobility/Endpoint Security Summit “MESS” and I don’t know what to say. A few last minute vendor cancellations and changes have made it an interesting event to say the least.

Ernie is still on track and will be there and the good contents and information from the other participating vendors will be great. Am I excited, yes indeed :-).

Seats are still available so grab one now https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=124293.

Thank you and have a great day. We apprecilove your business and support.

~Brett A. Scudder~
President/Chairman/Founder/Security Architect
The IT Security Suite Network ~TITSSN~
Brett.Scudder@titssn.net | http://titssn.net | (877) 539-8614 / (718) 928-6516

Link: http://theitsecuritysuite.net/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=32007

I saw this article and wanted to share my thoughts on it. It’s been a hell of a day but what can I say.

Researchers ‘poison’ Storm botnet
http://theitsecuritysuite.net/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=32007

Here’s what I have a problem with.

Now that they have successfully figured out how the botnet works and poisoned it, why are they disclosing all the information and methods of how they did it?

Isn’t this now allowing the botmaster to change his tactics and create different ways of managing and distributing the bots?

What do you think?
I’d love to hear the thoughts of my feel IT professionals on this. I have always found that this type of disclosure was always a negative effect to the issue at hand and this surely proves it.

You’ve just given the bad guys all the info they need to circumvent what you’ve worked so hard to put in place for the past few months :-(.

~Brett A. Scudder~

Link: http://titssn.net

Good day to you,

June is our Compliance month and this year’s theme is, to be or not to be is not an option, thou must comply.

We are working on the schedule for the month but our monthly meeting and training and development workshop will be on Compliance. We will be taking a deep dive into the various compliance laws and regulations and understanding who they apply to and where.

More info to come.

Thank you,

~Brett A. Scudder~

Link: http://theitsecuritysuite.net/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=32002

Good day to you,

On April 4-6th 2008, TITSSN participated in the I-CON Science and Technology Conference in Long Island, NY as an invitation from Mr. Lee Wilbur Sci-Tech Programming Coordinator (a fellow TITSSN member). We participated in various panel discussions and presentations such as,

• The IT Security Threats Landscape
  
• IT Security 101 - am I secure or not
  
• Privacy Myths,
  
• Pirates out of the Water: Software Piracy
  
• Cybercrime,
  
• Nanotechnology,
  
• Skynet: Is Big Brother Really That Bad?
  
• The Next Big Thing
  
• Things that makes you Paranoid
  
• Science and the Superhero
  
• and an ask the geeks wrap up panel discussion

It was 3 days of interesting features and discussions that attracted audiences from all over the world and we were honored to be there and to be a part of it. It was great.

Please see full announcement release here.

Thank you,

~Brett A. Scudder~

Link: http://titssn.net

Good day to you,

Our hosting provider experienced an outage this morning at 10:30am and is diligently working on brining their services back online.

At this time all TITSSN messaging services are down and we ask your patience as we work with our provider to get back up and running ASAP.

If you are receiving NDR messages, please do no resend as they will be added to the queue until the servers are back online.

Thank you and have a great day,

~Brett A. Scudder~

Link: http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3214173&SiteID=17

Windows XP Service Pack 3 Released to Manufacturing

Today we are happy to announce that Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) has released to manufacturing (RTM). Windows XP SP3 bits are now working their way through our manufacturing channels to be available to OEM and Enterprise customers.

We are also in the final stages of preparing for release to the web (i.e. you!) on April 29th, via Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center. Online documentation for Windows XP SP3, such as Microsoft Knowledge Base articles and the Microsoft TechNet Windows XP TechCenter, will be updated then. For customers who use Windows XP at home, Windows XP SP3 Automatic Update distribution for users at home will begin in early summer.

Thanks to everyone here who installed the public betas – you not only gave us detailed feedback but also helped each other out with timely troubleshooting. Through the beta program we found several important issues and were able to confirm some essential fixes. We couldn’t have done this without you.

We will still be monitoring this forum during the next few weeks in case you have more feedback about the release of Windows XP SP3.

On behalf of myself, Shashank Bansal and Windows Serviceability, many thanks.

Chris Keroack
Release Manager, Windows XP Service Pack 3
Windows Serviceability

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Release Manager, Windows Serviceability

Link: http://titssn.net/mess

Good day to you,

We’re very excited to share this early news with you. Famous actor/movie star Ernie “Ghostbuster” Hudson (now Securitybuster) will be our special guest speaker at MESS 2008 on May 20th.


I met up with him at I-CON 27 and we talked for a while about the ways in which we’re seeing mobility driving the dissemination of the entertainment business, the security issues they present and how it would benefit him as an actor and he liked it.

He gave us a good deal (in my opinion for someone at his level) because he supports our initiatives and likes the idea of generating more awareness and education around and about these issues. We will be working with him on the final logistics of his trip for the event his week but we wanted to give you a quick update on this as it is locked in and secured, he will be there.

The idea of working with the celebrities community is to show that IT Security goes outside of IT and brings together every area of society. IT Security is not just an industry problem, it’s a people problem and we’re all affected by it one way or another.

We’re also working on having Mr. Kieffer Sutherland as our guest speaker to kick off the National IT Security Public Awareness Program this year. His role in 24 speaks very well (to some level) of what we do as IT Security professionals and having him with us would be a great complement to our national outreach program. We’re keeping my fingers crossed that it’ll work out :-)

More details to come shortly. Here is Mr. Hudson’s website www.ernie-hudson.com.
MESS 2008 event info and registration details are here.
Seats are limited so catch one while you can.

We’d like to say many thanks to him for sharing in our vision and making the time to do this with us. Thank you Sir.

~Brett A. Scudder~