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Sue Marquette Poremba

February 26, 2010

Don't Get Spoofed

Cell phone leave education and experience off your resume isn't a new problem. It's where someone sends a text message from one phone and makes it look like it is from a phone you know -- phishing ... More >

February 24, 2010

March 1 Deadline for Massachusetts Data-Security Law Looms

March 1 is days away.  If you do business with people from Massachusetts, the month might arrive like a lion -- and not because of another Nor'easter.  March 1 is the deadline date for a new state l... More >

February 23, 2010

HHS Taking Steps to Prevent Breaches

Despite the HIPAA privacy law, despite increase awareness, and even despite all of the negative publicity generated from the run on any one of several platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings in the c... More >

February 22, 2010

A Security View of the State of the Web

The abstract of Zscaler 's State of the Web report for the fourth quarter of 2009 doesn't pull any punches. The first lines state: Attackers are no longer targeting web and email servers. Today, the... More >

February 19, 2010

Zeus in the News

I suppose with the Olympics dominating the sports pages this week, it is a logical parallel that the Zeus Trojan is headlining security news. The Wall Street Journal reported on the Zeus Trojan, ak... More >

February 17, 2010

Who's Hacking?

At the end of last year, I talked a bit about Cyber Challenge , a contest where hacking skills could lead to security jobs. Another annual contest comes up in March, the Pwn2Own 2010 to test hac... More >

February 16, 2010

Are You Feeding a Dinosaur?

In the 21st century, I think we can add to Ben Franklin's ultimate certainties of death and taxes . . . and that will be the need to the creation of yet another silo of computing platforms .   ... More >

February 11, 2010

Writing Rugged Code

the creation of yet another silo of computing platforms can lead to vulnerabilities, like the recent problems with Flash .   According to Tim Greene's Network World article , that's why three... More >

February 10, 2010

How Your Business Can Cut Down on Identity Fraud

Last month, IT Business Edge reported on the guilty pleas by several men who committed identity theft. Unfortunately, the men are part of a growing trend. Javelin Strategy and Research released its... More >

February 8, 2010

First Point of Security: Apply Those Patches!

Earlier I pointed out the importance of making sure you remain up-to-date on patches , as recommended by Kevin Prince at our Network Security Edge site. My colleague here at IT Business Edge, Paul... More >

February 5, 2010

Social Media and Security: 2010 and Beyond

Love it or hate it, one thing is true: Social media applications are here to stay, at least through the foreseeable future. Gartner recently announced its five social media software predictions fo... More >

February 3, 2010

Avoiding Viruses Without Unplugging

Since my run-in with the Antivirus Live attack , I’ve been hyper-vigilant on virus and malware scans on my computer, especially any time my computer seems sluggish.   Getting hit with some kind... More >

February 1, 2010

Exploited Vulnerabilities: Blame Yourself

Interesting news coming from the United Kingdom – the UK’s government has no plans to switch from using IE6 , despite a vulnerability in the browser that was exploited by hackers.   Exploitin... More >

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