https://www.circleid.com/blogs/ Postings from on CircleID en Copyright 2026, unless where otherwise noted. 2026-04-08T19:45:00+00:00 https://circleid.com/posts88251_best_western_security_compromise https://circleid.com/posts88251_best_western_security_compromise Sunday that Best Western was struck by a trojan attack that lead to the possible compromise of about 8 million victims. There is some debate as to the extent of the breach and not a small amount of rumor going around. I'm not entirely disposed to trust corporate press releases for the facts, nor am I going to blindly accept claims of security researchers whose first call is to the PR team when discovering a problem. That said, here is what seems to be the agreed upon facts... More...]]> 2026-04-08T12:45:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts87312_is_anti_virus_dead https://circleid.com/posts87312_is_anti_virus_dead SANSFIRE, the Handlers who can make it to DC get together for a panel discussion on the state of information security. Besides discussion of the hot DNS issue, between most of us there is a large consensus into some of the biggest problems that we face. Two come to mind, the fact that "users will click anything" and that "anti-virus is no longer sufficient". These are actually both related in my mind... More...]]> 2026-04-08T12:45:00-07:00