Tag Archives: Security
Securing your company data on an iPhone
2010-02-03 UPDATE: Google Apps can now remote wipe an iPhone and enforce security policies. Read more here. Apple has two three* ways to secure company data on an iPhone in the event an iPhone is lost or stolen. If you … Continue reading
Social Networking Security
CRN.com has listed Social Networking as a top 10 Information Technology Security threat. CRN writes the following about Social Networking Threats. For the full article head over to State Of Technology Security: Top 10 Biggest Security Threats Social Networking Threats … Continue reading
Social Media in the Workplace
According to a survey of 1,400 CIOs of companies with 100 or more employees, 54% said they now block employees from accessing social networking sites at work. Mashable cited this information from the study: Only 10% of those surveyed let … Continue reading
Fortinet wins SC Magazine award for Best Integrated Security Solution
Congratulations to Fortinet for taking home the SC Magazine award for “Best Integrated Security Solution” for the Fortigate 310B. In their review, SC Magazine stated: The FortiGate-310B appliance integrates firewall, AV, IPS, VPN, content filtering, anti-spam and traffic-shaping functions, or … Continue reading
April Fool’s Day poses Virus risk
Virus programmers have written a new virus that is scheduled to become active on April 1st, 2009. It is estimated that 9 to 15 million machines are currently infected. On April 1st, these machines will execute the malicious code, potentially … Continue reading
Perfect Passwords
Source: Perfect Passwords, Mark Burnett 2005 and reprinted from: WhatsMyPass From the moment people started using passwords, it didn’t take long to realize how many people picked the very same passwords over and over. Even the way people misspell words … Continue reading
Microsoft releases critical IE security patch
On December 17, 2008 Microsoft released a patch for a recently disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The patches fixes a problem where a specially crafted website could result in a hacker gaining remote control of your comptuer. Due to the … Continue reading
Twitter users give away their passwords
On 11-12-2008 stories started to circulate about a third party website that is duping users into entering the credentials they use for Twitter. Twitter is a social networking site where users write messages up to 140 characters in length to … Continue reading
Wireless security – not so secure
According to this article on Engadget, another wireless protocol has been cracked. Wireless security has gone through several changes and protocols in efforts to remain secure, but as computers have become faster hackers have been able to decode encrypted wireless … Continue reading
Microsoft releases critical security patch
It’s been a while since Microsoft has published a critical security patch outside of their monthly schedule. On October 23rd, 2008 a bulletin was released announcing a patch is breaking the cycle. Microsoft rates today’s fix a level 3 critical … Continue reading