That’s right, October is National CyberSecurity Awareness Month. (Who knew?) In honor of that fact, I thought I’d highlight the US-CERT.
“The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) is a partnership between the Department of Homeland Security and the public and private sectors. Established in 2003 to protect the nation’s Internet infrastructure, US-CERT coordinates defense against and responses to cyber attacks across the nation.”
Among the resources you can find here are Security Publications, ranging from the very basic (“Recognizing and Avoiding Email Spam“; “Banking Securely Online“) to the very advanced (“Malware Tunneling in IPv6“; “The Continuing Denial of Service Threat Posed by DNS Recursion (v2.0)“). Most interesting of all may be the complete backfile of the US-CERT’s Monthly and Quarterly Reports to 2006. The Quarterly Reports summarize and analyze the threats of the previous quarter. The Related Resources listing of links is helpful as well.