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Most folks will not understand (or even care about) the details of the recently reported DNS rebind vulnerability. But this problem affects many of the low-end cable and DSL routers that are used in homes and small businesses. Even more alarming is that a tool to exploit this vulnerability is to be released at Black [...]
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I received a call this week from a friend who works in a small office. She had been out for a few days, and when she returned it became obvious that someone had been rummaging through the stuff on her desk. Then, she started telling me that when she turned her computer on there was [...]
“Backups are the disaster recover plan!”, he emphatically said. And so began the conversation… Of course, backups are a part of the disaster recovery, but not the complete plan. Just last night I found out about a local business whose server crashed. They had been dutifully performing backups. The backup subsystem reported that backups had [...]
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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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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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