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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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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