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April 29, 2009

Pandemic Plan: Do Your Homework if You Foresee an Increase in Telecommuting

In yesterday's post, Time to Go Beyond the Business Continuity Plan to the Pandemic Plan , I discussed having a pandemic plan, something that every company should have. With employees concerned abou... More >

April 28, 2009

Time to Go Beyond the Business Continuity Plan to the Pandemic Plan

With the swine influenza working its way across the world, it's a good time to discuss your pandemic plan. You do have a pandemic plan, right? If you do have a plan, then pat yourself on the back. If... More >

April 27, 2009

A Ray of Hope in IT Security Spending

Last week during the RSA conference in San Francisco, CompTIA released its 7th Annual Trends in Information Security survey . The survey addressed spending trends in security on an international bas... More >

April 24, 2009

Mozilla Putting out Fires in Firefox

This week Mozilla released 12 security patches for its Firefox browser, version 3.0.9. Of the 12 patches, four were rated as critical, two high, two moderate, and four low. This patch release was the... More >

April 22, 2009

Survey: Executive Suite, Security Staff Finally on the Same Page

How would you like to work in an environment where the CXOs all recognize the importance of your job, information security, and are willing to support you? Sounds like an Alfred Hitchcock film -- sca... More >

April 21, 2009

Log Management Has Come a Long Way, but Still Hangs on Normalization, Search

Logs -- for some administrators, the word sends a chill down their spine. When I was a systems administrator managing over 50 UNIX servers, I had more logs than I knew what to do with, and frequently... More >

April 20, 2009

A Few of My Favorite Security Research Sites

I cover a lot of security topics in this blog. In order to stay on top of issues that change very quickly, I read a tremendous amount of information. I thought that it would be beneficial to share so... More >

April 17, 2009

Symantec Report Shows an Increase in Malicious Activity

Symantec, the anti-virus vendor, released the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report . The report finds that malicious activity continues to grow at an alarming rate. Highlights from the report sh... More >

April 15, 2009

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Update - April 2009

Yesterday was patch Tuesday and Microsoft released eight security bulletins that addressed 21 vulnerabilities, 10 of which were rated as critical. This was the largest update since October 2008, wh... More >

April 14, 2009

Patching on the Rise at Microsoft

Microsoft recently admitted that it had released more patches during the second half of 2008 than it had in the beginning of the year. No surprise here, and we certainly didn't need Microsoft to tell... More >

April 13, 2009

Conficker Working Its Way Through the Alphabet

Last week, another variant of the Conficker worm was discovered, Conficker.E, by anti-virus vendor Trend Micro. The worm finally got the update we have all been waiting for since April 1, by its peer... More >

April 9, 2009

Kaiser Employees Fired for 'Snooping' into Medical Records

Fifteen Kaiser Permanente employees were recently fired and another eight were reprimanded for accessing the medical records of Nadya Suleman , better known as the "Octomom." The employees all wor... More >

Microsoft: Phishing Attack?

Microsoft recently issued several messages to Windows Live Messenger (MSN) users that could have easily been mistaken for a phishing attack . I know, because I received one. The messages asked users... More >

April 7, 2009

Let's NOT Order Chinese

When I think of ordering Chinese, I think of General Tso's, chicken and broccoli, and shrimp fried rice. However, today you can order a zero=day with a side of malware. Yes, that's right, our number-... More >

April 6, 2009

HP OpenView Has Critical Vulnerability

According to a researcher at CoreLabs , a vulnerability was found in HP OpenView that could affect a large number of its customers and potentially millions of computers. Researchers at Secunia f... More >

April 2, 2009

Outsmarting 'Ransomware'

Scareware, which scans your computer, finds nothing, then cons you into sending in money to fix a fake vulnerability, has been done before. However, the latest version of Vundo does this and adds a... More >

April 1, 2009

Worm Targeting Home Routers and Modems Is Endangering Your Corporate Network

A new worm has been discovered that can infect popular home routers and modems such as Linksys and Netgear. Pstb0t or Bluepill basically uses a brute-force attack. It has 6000 usernames and 13,000 ... More >