Metrics

Yankee Group research may not be as well-subscribed as say, Gartner’s, but I like to think that it compares favorably with it. Earlier this year I wrote a research note titled Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: the Hackers Turn Pro about the increasing number of vulnerabilities found in security products.

The folks at the NY Times have put together a nifty interactive graphic that diagrams the various data breach cases that have been disclosed since January.

Collecting Hamster Wheels of Pain is certainly a fun hobby. So is collecting the rather amusing e-mail addresses chosen by spammers to evade e-mail filters. Here are some good’uns from the 305 spam-grams from the past week:

We’ve had some interesting chatter on the securitymetrics mailing list today about sparklines: tiny, intense, word-size graphics. This is one of Edward Tufte’s latest confections. His formal definition is here.