SysFix IT Support recommends you look out for Identity theft week. Lots of useful information backed by the uk government.
This past week I was working on performing a security assessment and I was using the latest version of BackTrack 4. I noticed that it has Miredo support to help auditors establish a secret IPv6 back-channel to their exploited systems. This shows that the security community is recognizing how IPv6 can be used as a backdoor to owned systems. Read more
Researchers at IBM say they have created smart software that that translates text between English and 11 other languages including Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French, Italian, Russian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Arabic.
Hosted as an internal IBM service since August 2008, n.Fluent offers a secure real-time translation tool that translates text in web pages, electronic documents, Sametime instant message chats, and provides a BlackBerry mobile translation application. Read more
SysFix IT Support recommends you look out for Identity theft week. Lots of useful information backed by the uk government.
I was in New York last Wednesday, 11/18 for a one-day whirlwind tour of the Interop show floor. Sorry to say I did not have time to attend the keynote presentations, but my schedule only afforded enough time to catch up with the twenty or so management vendors who were exhibiting. Little did I know that I would be forced to live the day as one of the unfortunate - the "have-nots" - the "Internet unconnecteds"... Read more
Google's laying it all out on the table with Chrome OS. My editor posted an excellent article about Chrome OS and we're already expecting a Chrome OS update from Google. Despite the distraction of a bank robbery and shooting in our city last week, I managed to dig my paws into Chrome OS to try and really understand what Google's up to. Read more
During the interview M. E. Kabay, asks how security products can help a business achieve their overall goals. Kabay has a good point – most security vendors focus on what the technology can do and not how it benefits the business overall. Among other ways security can benefit the business is cost savings. An effective spam blocker alone can save an organization hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in productivity and damages done by viruses spread through spam. I agree, security vendors should focus on the benefits of security rather than the “Look what our product can do” factor. Read more
Get the real scoop of what Cisco's new term borderless networks is all about, learn how to use some of the mainstream hacking tools, and understand how you can use what you probably already have to better defend your network. Cisco's techwise TV show just released a new video that I thought was worth mentioning. Here is their description; "The idea was to really narrow down the control points that still remain when your network is no longer identified by a physical entity or easily defined presence if you will. Read more
That's going to be one busy application :)
Yet another reason that we can not afford to have critical systems that use Microsoft Windows and IE.
It would be nice if smart cards were implemented in the US.
This articleis very irresponsible. It makes the space program look irresponsible. Could you guys wait to run something until you at least have all the facts.
Another reason why software patents and business method patents should not be allowed and all existing ones be voided.
In court the Federal Communications Commission has charged 26 people with defrauding the agency of "tens of millions of dollars" from its program that lets people with hearing disabilities to communicate with hearing individuals through the use of interpreters and Web cameras. Read more
With Cyber Monday approaching, we here in the news business are being inundated as usual with offers of "expert advice" for us to pass along to readers/online shoppers so that they may better protect themselves against identity theft.
Most of it we -- and you -- have read a hundred times already. Read more
We've got to hurry. You can only track so much of what people are doing in the U.S. with eavesdropping on phones and internet traffic, and using spy-in-the-sky satellites.
The 21st century will become the surveillance century, right up until the lights go out and the heat overtakes us.
The MIT Kerberos Consortium held a conference in October and is now making slides from presentations available here online. These include slides from Microsoft Chief Architect for Identity Kim Cameron's keynote address and from a panel including NASA and Cornell reps. Read more
"A card within the IP router in the FAA Salt Lake center’s telecommunications system defaulted, and for an unknown reason it wouldn’t allow the system to switch to a backup card" based on Bloomberg news.
Hm, wonder who programmed that network or what hardware it was...
I have written the past about portable applications that Admins can carry with them.
I came across a new 'suite' of portable applications that are being touted as the Admins Swiss Army Knife, and for good reason.
The CodySafe Admin pack hosts 75 portable administrative tools into a single suite that installs onto a portable device and takes up less than 63MB of space. Within this tiny package are tools for handling all of the most common Admin tasks such as:
• Data Recovery Read more
• Password Recovery
• Disk tools
• File & FTP managers
• Network Tools
• Security
While the number of permitted unmanned aircraft operations in commercial airspace has tripled since 2007, the Federal Aviation Administration says routine drone access to civilian airspace is years away. Read more
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