Security vendor McAfee spills 1,400 customer names – Network World “Dripping with irony” is how Network World magazine describes this situation. The lesson for the small business is that regardless of how advanced, or secure, your organization is, there needs to be constant vigilance. You don’t want to be the next company that has a [...]
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UPDATE: I am not yet satisfied with the wording of the survey, and thus it will not be available when I had originally planned. Watch for the announcement of the survey to be coming soon on various mailing lists. If you want a personal reminder when it is available, leave me a note in the [...]
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Twitter hacked by old technique — again by AP: Yahoo! Tech This article came out yesterday. The short description is that a compromised personal email account led to a compromise at Twitter. Although the article is written with the focus on Twitter, this can just as easily happen to you and your organization. Tip: Keep [...]
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Reports are coming out this morning of distributed denial of service attacks coming from North Korea and targeting South Korean government and business web sites. I heard one report which stated that US government sites are also being targeted. I’ve never really thought USA Today was a bastion of InfoSec news, but they have a [...]
I can remember many, many years ago when my Dad disposed of old tax documents. He just threw them in the trash. The only redeeming factor was that we lived in the country and burned all of our paper trash. But, have you ever known anyone to just toss a confidential document in the trash? [...]
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