I have been testing the free version of Trillian the last week or so. It is nice to have all your chat contacts in a single view across the main providers, and to have a log of past conversations is very powerful.

I have also upgraded from 3.0.x to the new version 4.08 of X1 running with no problems. The upgrade was pretty painless except that some of indexes needed to be redone. X1 does a great job of posting their detailed release notes to see what is new in their version releases.

Since Microsoft has relased Lookout 1.2 for ‘free’ since buying the product, I loaded that up for a head-to-head evaluation. It competes with X1 in the personal serach marketplace. It seems to work as advertised. I do like X1’s ability to preview content once you find something instead of having to open it up like Lookout does.

One of the key ways to determine how deep your risk is from outside hacker attack is to have your information assurance (IA) team setup a HoneyPot.

They are a lot of work but the details you can get from them may help you protect your information systems considerably in the future.

There is a new CDROM version available that might fit the bill: http://www.honeynet.org/tools/cdrom/.

Here is a link for DShield:

I think it is kinda cool that you can embedded other people’s work within my own space. But I think I need to have some sort of trust that the “image” won’t change to something I don’t agree with.