This week has been very slow. This isn't a bad thing, but when you have to write a weekly blurb about what happened, it's a bit of a challenge.
IBM Plans Major Security Initiative
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iSFxylj-4ojpf44zNT6k01yBY5RgD8SKHH781
IBM announced last week that they plan to spend 1.5 billion (with a big B) dollars on security research in 2008. Information Security is becoming a very serious business. I suspect the biggest issue now is going to be finding employees to fill these positions.