Monday, February 27, 2006

Mac OS X Honeymoon is over!

A few days late. Kevin Liston of the SANS Internet Storm Center published an insightful entry over the weekend. Basically he said that recent vulnerabilities in OS X have got exploit developers turning their attention in that direction.

http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1145

It was bound to happen. It is not that the vulnerabilities weren't out there, it was just that hardly anyone was looking. Time for the OS Xers to join the real world.

Rick

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. Unfortunately this wasn't it. - Groucho Marx

Thursday, February 23, 2006

Tell me about your first!

I was listening to Paul Asadoorian's podcast with Mike Poor and Ed Skoudis of IntelGuardians and SANS/GIAC (http://www.pauldotcom/2006/02/pauldodtcom_security_weekly_int.html) and the conversation came around to Mike and Ed's first computers. Mike's was an Apple IIe, Ed's a Vic 20 (purchased in 1980). This got me thinking about mine.

I can go one better...mine was a TRS80 Model 1 my Dad bought in about 1978. It was a 4K machine with a cassette tape drive. The first programming language I learned was Z80 assembler, followed shortly after by Basic. The first real program I wrote was a bad graphics version of poker dice in Basic.

Unfortunately, I remember punched cards, octal bootstraps, monochrome monitors (Volker Craig 4404's), Sigma 9's, PDP-11's , and a whole lot of other things that make me feel really old.

I would love to hear about your first.

Rick

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Groucho Marx