Security Tools News & Tips

Report: Security Certifications Boost Pay - “IT professionals with security certifications—including all versions of the CISSP, CISA, GSE, CISM, SSCP and GCFA—earned 10 percent to 14 percent premiums on their base pay over their non-certified counterparts.”

New vulnerabilities hit Firefox and Internet Explorer - There are no patches yet available from either vendor. The most serious is MSIE page update race condition, and next most severe is Firefox Cross-site IFRAME hijacking.

Encrypt and sign Gmail messages with FireGPG - “It integrates nicely into Gmail’s interface and allows you to sign and encrypt not only email messages but also text snippets from any Web page.”

Google Desktop vulnerable to attack - RSnake has discovered a man-in-the-middle attack on Google Desktop.