Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Conventional wisdom is that Web wanderers are safe as long as they avoid sites that serve up pornography, stock tips, games and the like. But according to recently gathered research from Boston-based IT security and control firm Sophos, sites we take for granted are not as secure as they appear.Among ...
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
Parents who install a leading brand of software to monitor their kids' online activities may be unwittingly allowing the company to read their children's chat messages — and sell the marketing data gathered.Software sold under the Sentry and FamilySafe brands can read private chats conducted through Yahoo, MSN, AOL and ...
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Monday, September 7th, 2009
Protecting the management account for cloud services can be one of the most critical security points of a cloud-based solution. Arguably, the account is more important than instance and operating system security for cloud workloads. Amazon web services (AWS) has recently introduced a new feature, Amazon web services multi-factor authentication ...
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Saturday, September 5th, 2009
A stitch in time saves nine. I couldn’t sew my way out of a bag, but it’s true advice for bloggers as well — a little bit of work on an upgrade now saves a lot of work fixing something later.Right now there is a worm making its way around ...
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Saturday, September 5th, 2009
Microsoft will roll out a total of five critical patches for numerous versions of Windows operating systems in its upcoming September "Patch Tuesday" security update release, according to a Microsoft Advanced Notification bulletin posted Thursday.All five patches plug holes that allow remote code execution, indicating that hackers could remotely exploit ...
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