6. May 2008, 11:44
PHP, the code base that runs millions of sites online, has been upgraded. The development team announced yesterday that the release of 5.2.6 was official, and development teams are encouraged to update. ...
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6. May 2008, 11:34
Databases are wonderful things; they are also evil things that if not secured properly could land your company in hot water with compliance regulators and consumers. Thanks to the endless reports of lost or stolen data, often housed in databases, IT departments large and small are worried about their data. ...
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6. May 2008, 11:26
The concept is not unique, but the marketing on the site certainly is. Passwordsafe.com offers to secure memos and passwords over a SSL encryption on your desktop or online. The problem is that the security of the service is questionable, and even the marketing team agrees. So if you want to store your ever growing list of passwords, what should you do? ...
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5. May 2008, 18:00
Recently during a talk at Interop, Joshua Corman, security strategist for IBM/ISS, offered up “7 dirty secrets" in the security industry. The talk, titled “Unsafe at any speed: 7 Dirty Secrets of the Security Industry,” was aimed at explaining why companies should have a “healthy level of skepticism about what security vendors are trying to tell you” when evaluating your business’s needs. ...
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5. May 2008, 11:47
During Interop last week, wireless security vendor released the results of their annual wireless survey. The company took a sampling of wireless access points in the Las Vegas area, and discovered some interesting facts. ...
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5. May 2008, 11:43
During the Health Information Management and Systems Society 2008 conference in February, sixty four percent of those who took part in a survey said compliance and user access control were their top security concern. ...
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2. May 2008, 11:34
A new Harris Interactive study shows that despite placing personal information security at the top of their list, U.S. adults are still placing their information at risk. On top of that, of those surveyed by Harris, eighty-seven percent feel that personal information is slightly secure or not secure at all. ...
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1. May 2008, 17:17
May 1, 1978. That is the date that three hundred ninety-three people received an email advertising Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). The email appeared to users on ARPANET, something most kids these days have no clue about, yet some users online still recall it with fondness. The email from DEC, sent by Gary Thuerk, is recorded in history as the first spam message. Now, thirty years later, Spam is still alive and kicking, and many are asking why. ...
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1. May 2008, 16:47
Microsoft has a tool, named Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, or COFEE. The tool was handed over to law-enforcement last year, and when news started spreading about it this week, accusations from Microsoft installing backdoors to privacy violations were screamed from rooftops. ...
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1. May 2008, 12:42
Spammers are looking to hijack .mil and .edu servers in their latest campaign. The Malware that is served up in the spam is looking for open relay servers, demonstrating that old tricks still work. ...
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