Preventing Data Loss With Password Manager Tools
It is impossible to understate the importance of having and using strong, secure online passwords, both personally and for companies. As tools like Firesheep have shown, gaining access to an email or Facebook account can be alarmingly simple. One of the primary...
Shady RAT World Wide Hacking
Recently McAffe published a worldwide hacking report about what they are calling Shady RAT. The United Nations, Olympic committees, governments, U.S. real estate company, a major media organization based in New York, a satellite communications company and other...
Passwords are More Secure than Biometrics for Network Security
A Hewlett-Packard’s white paper “HP ProtectTools: Authentication technologies and suitability to task“, 06/2005, does a very good job discussing the different security technologies available (Passwords, Trusted Platform Module, smartcard USB token,...
A Found USB Drive Is Not a Safe USB Drive
Recently, I was told of an incident where an employee of a fairly large company spotted a USB stick on the pavement in the parking garage. Concerned that it might be important information of a colleague, the employee picks up the stick and takes it back to his office....
Bogus Purchase Receipts In Your Email Box
As we do more online business and commerce, we expect to receive a receipt for our purchases: Amazon, iTunes, etc. Online thieves and spammers know this too and they are spamming us with bogus receipts with a high dollar amount just to catch your attention. A key clue...Free Report
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