It's the last few hours of 2009 here in South Africa so i wanted to take the opportunity really quickly to wish the 2 readers of this blog all the best for new year..

Most security "pundits" are currently doing their 2010 predictions. (although in truth few of them so far have been particularly surprising or out-there.. "Adobe will be brutalized" ? really? hows that different to 08 or 09)(One really has to question how the current whipping boy for exploit writers managed to be a key contributor to Gary McGraws BSIM Model, but i digress)

I'm going to skip the prognostication this time, and instead will go for a new years resolution... From Tim O' Reilly's 2003 advice to "Buy where i shop" a little more.. I have previously spoken about @timoreilly's awesome and life-changing "Work on stuff that matters" talk, and this piece is kinda similar and scarily prescient considering its publish date.

Happy New Years to *

is currently on in Berlin.

As usual [it] looks like a blast, and as usual, media [is online] before the speaker shuts down his presentation machine..

SensePosters can grab a local copy of the EN-vids [here]

/mh

Last week had two "cloud-security" related articles hit the inter-webs.. After our Vegas09 talk on "clobbering the cloud" we had a brief chat to Rob Lemos, who called us up again, so we ended up adding the soundbyte to his piece in Technology review along with guys like Moxie Marlinspike and Danny MacPherson [here]

We also showed up on Read/Write Web, where we were called "security nerds" and "black hats"

Ahhh.. roll on 2010!