While checking my Feedburner stats I noticed that I’m consistently hovering around the 50 subscriber mark! This may not sound high to you but it’s a great boost to my ego to see that people are subscribing to my blog to read what I have to say. I wanted to take this time to say ‘thanks’ to everyone who subscribes to my blog and an extra ‘thank you’ to those who regularly comment 🙂

Looks like Marty and Co. have acquired ClamAV. I’m a huge fan of ClamAV on Windows, Linux, and OSX. From the press release:

“ClamAV is one of the most successful technologies in the open source security arena. This acquisition not only broadens Sourcefire’s open source footprint, but allows us to support, develop and incorporate the ClamAV technology throughout our commercial offerings,” said Martin Roesch, Founder and CTO of Sourcefire and Creator of Snort. “The success of the ClamAV project is a direct reflection of the talent and dedication of the founding team and the project community. Sourcefire is committed to investing in and advancing the ClamAV technology, just as we have with Snort and Snort.org.”

This is my favorite AV scanner these days. Congratulations to the ClamAV team!

Unfortunately I’m not able to attend this event but if you’re in the area I encourage you to drop by:

ChicagoCon combines a professional security conference, certification training and a hacker con into a single, unique event. Not just another bootcamp, ChicagoCon adds value to your training dollars by providing top instructors, recognized certifications, keynotes, evening presentations, hacking demos, gift bags with t-shirts, an EH-Net version of BackTrack with Metasploit 3 and packaged as a VMware Virtual Appliance & much more. 11 courses with exams on site including CISSP, CEH, CHFI, Expert Pen Testing, Web App Hacking, Cisco (CCNA & SNPA), SOX/COBIT, Security+, Linux+, and PMP. From the novice, to the ultimate techie, to the CISO chair… everyone interested in a career in security will find something at ChicagoCon, your one-stop shop for security training and certification. Keynotes: John C. Dvorak, Steve Hunt, Lance Spitzner, Symantec, and Doug Steelman of the DoD.

More information can be found here: http://www.chicagocon.com/