We did it again! About 30 people came to the second ISSA meeting in Wroclaw (thank you guys!), we had two talks and a really nice discussion afterwards. And this time we even had a full-blown catering! :) A big thanks goes to BZ WBK for hosting the meeting again and to ISSA Polska for sponsoring coffee and the snacks for the meeting.

It was really nice meeting all of you guys! Thanks a lot and hope to see you next month!

And for all of you who didn’t make it to the meeting, here are the slides.

For all of you guys around here in Poland, another opportunity to deepen your acquaintance with information security just appeared. The first issue of Xploit have just hit the shelves.

What’s in it?

• A remote DoS on Vista,
• A tale of a deadly Android,
• A short story of hacking PSP,
• Everything you ever wanted to know about hosting, but were afraid to ask,
• Challenges of risk analysis,
• Securing SQL Server 2005,
• Polish law and hacking,
• TPM in GNU/Linux,
• and much, much more.

I had a pleasure to share some thoughts on risk analysis in this issue, so be it only for that I really encourage you to visit your newsagent and give this fine new magazine a try.

What do you think happens when some spamming bots pick up your email address and start using it as a source address when throwing discounted Viagra and almost-like-the-real-thing watch replicas crap at people in unbelievable amounts?

Tons, and I mean TONS, of "undeliverable message" bounces together with quite a lot of my favourites – out of office notes. When you think about it, quite a lot of information is being thrown at you in such messages. Here are some sanitised examples (all in German, as my email address sells on a German market, apparently).