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  • Security Implications of Social Networking

    Brad Dinerman has written an interesting white paper on Social Networking and Security Risks. When you think about the amount of personal information that can be gathered from social networking sites and then think about what a bad guy could do with that...
    Posted to SecureSMB by on Thu, Jul 30 2009
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  • Roundtable Discussion: Lining Your Pockets With FUD

    An event occurred last week that made a lot of IT people some money and added to their desire to obtain 15 minutes of minutes of fame – the Conflicker debacle. Between the media and IT professionals, both desperate to survive in a slow economy, (witness...
    Posted to SecureSMB by on Tue, Apr 7 2009
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  • New White Paper on Web Monitoring

    GFI has published a white paper I wrote on web monitoring. In that paper I discuss concepts that are foreign to most thought on how filtering should be approached. However, this approach has always worked for me. I’d be interested in hearing what you...
    Posted to SecureSMB by on Thu, Mar 19 2009
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  • Microsoft Live Mesh

    I’m doing a tech edit for a soon to be released book on EBS, and the publisher got me started on Live Mesh. We are using it to swap chapter files around and share things between the project team. I have to admit that it is WAY COOLER than I had...
    Posted to SecureSMB by on Thu, Jan 22 2009
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  • Governments are hopeless at information security

    One of the good things about BlackBerry - apart from the main client platform that will never get really damaging and widespread malware - is clever server infrastructure that routes data streams between the handhelds and the enterprise infrastructure. A mother ship in Canada handles all signaling and...
    Posted to Risque Management by Slav on Wed, Jul 4 2007
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  • Pragmatism doesn't always work

    Asset classification is a popular concept among security specialists. Quoting from The Pragmatic CSO : You can’t protect what you don’t know about, so the first step is to figure out what you have. Likewise, you don’t want to spend $50,000 protecting a $2,000 business system, so in Step 1 you talk to...
    Posted to Risque Management by Slav on Sat, Jun 2 2007
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  • How to prevent 1% of cybercrime?

    An interesting picture appears on the PBS Shop Web site: Because of what it says I felt an urge to click on it. The first attempt (a right-click) resulted in the following message box: I think the law that prohibits copying the picture doesn't exist. Otherwise my Web browser would be breaking the...
    Posted to Risque Management by Slav on Fri, May 4 2007
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  • Crack the PIN

    Security of PINs (Personal Identification Numbers) that are used in your debit and credit cards is an interesting topic. Behind the scenes, the way PINs handled evolved together with science, technology, and business. And secure operation was always number one priority here. For example, take PIN entry...
    Posted to Risque Management by Slav on Mon, Apr 16 2007
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  • Forbes on public Wi-Fi: You Get What You Pay For

    Forbes , a respectable business magazine, writes about wireless security in the issue of 26 March 2007: Computer security firm Authentium in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. warns about an emerging Wi-Fi fraud aimed at air passengers. What road warriors sitting in a departure lounge think is a free authorized...
    Posted to Risque Management by Slav on Sun, Mar 18 2007
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