Security

DLP

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:00:13 +0000

This is a DLP problem, Symantec should thanks Cyber-Ark for paying for this survery.

Chrome OS Gets Grade of C-

Mitchell Ashley — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:29:04 +0000

You either see Chrome OS's all browser OS approach as revolutionizing the PC industry or then next "technology solution looking for a problem" doomed to fail. Google's approach with Chrome OS is certainly radically different from the Windows, Mac OS and Linux approach we've used since the birth of the personal computer industry in the seventies. Read more

BackTrack4 Uses IPv6 to Cover Tracks

Scott Hogg — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:57:01 +0000

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

IBM smartphone software translates 11 languages

Layer 8 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:51:44 +0000

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...

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ITSupport — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:10:30 +0000

SysFix [url=http://www.sysfix.co.uk]IT Support[/url] recommends you look out for Identity theft week. Lots of useful information backed by the uk government.

Internet = InterNOT @ Interop

Jim Frey — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:37:12 +0000

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"... ...

Google Chrome OS - Web Optimized Browser On Steriods

Mitchell Ashley — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:55:23 +0000

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...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:18:44 +0000

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.

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Cisco Network Security Survival Guide

jheary — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:04:17 +0000

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...

One busy app

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:54:11 +0000

That's going to be one busy application :)

lame

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:46:14 +0000

this was bad

Microsoft Security Risks

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:23:38 +0000

Yet another reason that we can not afford to have critical systems that use Microsoft Windows and IE.

Smartcards

Smart Cards — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:07:55 +0000

It would be nice if smart cards were implemented in the US.

Alarms article

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:56:35 +0000

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.

Software Patents

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:02:05 +0000

Another reason why software patents and business method patents should not be allowed and all existing ones be voided.

FCC: Internet program for deaf cheated out of millions of dollars

Layer 8 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:55:00 +0000

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

Check every day? Geesh, the identity thieves have won

Paul McNamara — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:31:29 +0000

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

Can unmanned aircraft mix safely with commercial aviation?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:05:20 +0000

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.

Kerberos brain dump via MIT

Alpha Doggs — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:40:25 +0000

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

FAA outage root cause due to IP Router

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:39:52 +0000

"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...