Maybe it’s just me, maybe I’ve just been busy with work, and not taking the time to scour over all the many news blogs, maybe there’s something there, and I’m just not picking up on it. But it seems lately, at least over the past couple weeks, it’s been pretty slow in the InfoSec news departments all around the net.

Some could even look at this as a good thing, as no news about bugs, exploits, vulnerabilities, and viruses, could be interpreted as good, meaning we’ve been doing our jobs and all is safe in the world.

I generally try to stay on top of everything, mostly for personal interest, but also for the self education process that usually comes with learning anything else about one’s field of profession. And in InfoSec, staying on top can be a job in itself. With vulnerabilities being discovered everyday, new viruses being created (we’ve topped 1 million now), and ensuring all customers/clients are protected from all of this, one can stay pretty busy.

So in all this, it’s hard to keep track of everything, on a good given week, I could literally spend all day learning about what’s been exploited, what’s been patched, who’s done what to help whom here and there. But learning is nothing if you never take time to implement what you’ve learned.

This entry was posted on Monday, April 14th, 2008 at 4:50 pm by Tim Donaworth and is filed under rants. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.