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Just to follow up on our participation at BlackHat USA this year, here are the free security tools which were demonstrated by SecureWorks Researchers Joe Stewart, Ben Feinstein and Daniel Peck.

• Windpill (from Joe Stewart’s “Just Another Windows Kernel Hacker” presentation)
• Caffeine Monkey (From Ben Feinstein & Daniel Peck’s “CaffeineMonkey: Automated Collection, Detection and Analysis of Malicious JavaScript” presentation)

Both of these tools are released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and are provided “as-is”, with no warranty and no support.

Also at BlackHat USA, our VP of Research, Allen Wilson, was interviewed by BankInfoSecurity.com. Check out the podcast here.

This article�from SC Magazine takes a look at security spending. Traditionally dominated by the enterprise, security spending appears, at least to analyst Mike Rothman, to be experiencing more growth in the small-to-medium enterprise (SME) segment. Smaller financial institutions such as regional credit unions and health care organizations have increased their spending on security technologies.

Other interesting points:

• Many new technologies (UTM, etc.) are repackaged versions of older technologies
• Application security is getting traction with companies
• Access control is getting bigger “in government”�

Check�out the article

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A couple of utilities focused articles hit recently - one proclaiming that utilities are upping security, the other claiming they are behind and even negligent.

Computerworld looks at the new reliability standards, which include cybersecurity controls, and the impact on spending in “New reliability rules put a charge in IT spending by utilities”. Good overview/updates on utility security progress.

VNUNET’s article is less helpful. The article “Utility firms sitting on hacking time bomb” is long on FUD and short on data. Take with a big grain of salt.