Business Continuity and the Swine Flu
Monday April 27, 2009
I don't believe the swine flu has reached official 'pandemic' status yet, but the number of deaths in Mexico from the swine flu has exceeded 100 and confirmed or suspected ... Read More
Swine Flu Spam and Phishing Attacks
Sunday April 26, 2009
There are more than 80 people confirmed dead in Mexico from the swine flu. There are confirmed cases in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and suspected cases in France, ... Read More
Adapting Security to New Technologies
Tuesday April 21, 2009
Security administrators would prefer it if people would stop coming up with new technologies. Organizations were just getting a handle on general network security and email, then instant messaging got ... Read More
The 2% Business Model
Friday April 17, 2009
If you were only 2% successful at your job, how long do you think you'd get to keep it? Heck, baseball players with a poor batting average still hit the ... Read More
Potential Security Vulnerability Exposed in iPhone
Friday April 17, 2009
A few weeks ago at the CanSecWest security conference Charlie Miller walked away with the Pwn2Own prize for successfully compromising a fully patched Mac OS X system in a matter ... Read More
Patch Tuesday is Here- Microsoft Releases 8 New Security Bulletins
Tuesday April 14, 2009
It's that time of the month again. It's the second Tuesday in April...which means its Patch Tuesday...which means that Microsoft has unleashed a new batch of Security Bulletins on the ... Read More
Shutting Down the Internet for National Security
Monday April 13, 2009
This past week there was a story in the Wall Street Journal claiming that attackers had compromised the electrical grid of the United States. The article cited anonymous sources and ... Read More
The Rogue Antimalware Threat
Friday April 10, 2009
One of the most common threats today, at least for the consumer market, is rogue antimalware. It would be one thing if the antimalware product being pushed was actually a ... Read More
Conficker is Back...and It Brought Company
Thursday April 9, 2009
Last week there was a great deal of hype and FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) going around about the Conficker worm. The worm, which has been traversing the Internet for ... Read More
Book Review: Hacking VoIP
Tuesday April 7, 2009
Himanshu Dwivedi and I worked together a few years back as co-authors of Hacker's Challenge 3. That was a fun project and I still enjoy reading the stories. That style ... Read More
Twitter for Computer and Network Security
Sunday April 5, 2009
Are you following me on Twitter yet? Why not?!?!
Are you still trying to understand the value of exchanging 140-character status updates with the world? I did as well at ... Read More
Surviving Conficker- Now What?
Thursday April 2, 2009
It's April 2nd. If you are reading this message then the Conficker apocalypse was a failure and the world as we know it did not end. Whew! Dodged that bullet.
Ok. ... Read More