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Who’s reading your email now? 2009-01-09 09:29:08 We have plenty to worry about, with the prospect of industrial spies snooping into our email, hackers, disgruntled employees and other vigilantes who want to know what we’re up to. And now we have one more to put on the list, and that’s the government.
The Times reported last Sunday that the Home Office has a [...]
CT Police Officers Reprimanded for Anti-Obama Email Campaign 2009-01-09 09:25:45 5 police officers in the town of Avon, CT were reprimanded for sending anti-Obama
emails from their work email account. The email was received by one of the officers on his home computer. He forwarded it to his work address and sent it to fellow officers, who then forwarded it on to others. The email [...] Read more:Campaign
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Microsoft Calms SSL Security Alert 2009-01-08 09:03:03 Today the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) updated their website regarding the potential of rogue SSL certificates being generated. US-CERT is part of the United States Homeland Security Agency. This alert is based on a report that identified a vulnerability in the Internet Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) used to issue digital certificates for [...] Read more:Alert
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Knowing when it’s the Real McCoy 2009-01-07 06:52:07 The most annoying pieces of malware are the fake security programs which pop up on your screen, informing you that they have detected malicious files on your computer. The program, which often disguises itself to look like it’s part of the Microsoft operating system, is very persistent. If I get one of these on my [...] Read more:McCoy
Email Attacks 2009-01-07 06:47:34 When thinking about safeguarding your emails you have to address what types of emails are prone to attacks. Traditional and regular email is text based so embedding viruses or Trojan horses is impossible. You will not suffer any disruptions by mandating a text based only email system.
By allowing users to send and receive attachments is your [...] Read more:Email
‘Curse of Silence’ attack gives us a glimpse of the future 2009-01-06 08:57:37 All mobile phones are becoming more intelligent. Today’s smartphone, still considered cutting edge and a tool for the upper class, will be tomorrow’s ordinary pocket phone. And when that happens, look out.
More evidence is coming in that smartphones will become a major target for attack
ers in the future. Just about everyone has some sort of [...] Read more:glimpse
eDiscovery FRCP Rule 26 - Can your company comply? 2009-01-06 08:49:31 The “Electronic Discovery Law Blog” published by K & L Gates provides detailed information for plotting an archiving course. Rule 26 is an amendment to the United States Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP). This rule covers the discovery of “electronically” stored information. Hence, in walks eDiscovery for email archiving. Rule 26 sets the stage [...] Read more:company
Does your company have a Recovery Time Objective? 2009-01-05 07:06:37 Many companies have a Disaster Recovery
plan that is focused on getting their web, application and database servers up and running as quickly as possible after an outage. But what take a lower priority are the email servers. And lesser priority than the servers are the email archives.
When creating a DR plan for data – [...] Read more:company
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The UK’s Communications Database: An Incredibly Bad Idea 2009-01-05 06:58:03 According to a recent news article, a private company may be tasked to manage and run a massive communications database to track every phone call, email, text message, and Internet use in the UK. The database of all communications traffic in the UK would potentially be managed by a private company, ostensibly to provide stricter [...] Read more:Communications
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Reviewing Your Email and Internet Usage Policies 2009-01-02 13:00:38 As the year comes to a close it’s good time to review your Email
and Internet
usage policies and insure that they are clear and comprehensive. The folks over at SmartBiz have published some helpful tips to assist you. Here’s an excerpt:
As the Internet and email have become a big part of our everyday lives, employers need [...] Read more:Policies
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The difference between backup and archive 2009-01-01 03:31:22 Backup and archive. What’s the difference
? Even people inside of IT sometimes see these two things as being the same, to the detriment of their organization. An article on Shortinfosec.net explains the difference well, and highlights the importance of including both backup
and archiving in your IT infrastructure. Failing to make the distinction could cause [...]
Perfect Timing with Obama and Cyber Security Report 2008-12-30 03:16:31 A report submitted to Congress on improving national cyber security is right on time, as U.S. President elect Barrack Obama
prepares to assume his official duties in January 2009.
The Chicago Tribune reported that earlier this month, Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS) Commission delivered a “Securing Cyber
space for the 44th Presidency” report to Congress. Recommendations Read more:Perfect
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Gmail annoyances considered 2008-12-29 11:10:13 Using public webmail accounts has been in the news ever since Sarah Palin’s infamous Yahoo account. And while I still don’t believe using one of these public webmail accounts for serious business is ever a good idea, there has been some back-and-forth on the issue around the blogosphere. First, Don Reisinger at Cnet wrote a [...] Read more:Gmail
IPSEC Key Management 2008-12-26 03:38:17 If you are going to use IPSEC or any other security protocol then you must ensure that the relationships are defined between all authorized entities, their cryptographic keys and the identification codes in the communications. Various methods exist for establishing security associations and assigning Security Parameter Indexes which are used to identify the crypto keys [...] Read more:Management
The Internet and email in 2020 2008-12-25 04:35:45 The Pew Internet
and American Life Project has released a new study, titled “The Future of the Internet III”, which takes an educated look at what the Internet will look like in 2020. The results are a little startling, and makes one very concerned about security and privacy in the future. And it would seem [...]
The Dangers of Cross Site Scripting 2008-12-24 06:02:35 As of 2007, cross-site scripting carried out on websites were roughly 80% of all documented security vulnerabilities. Cross
-site scripting (XSS) is a type of computer security vulnerability typically found in web applications which allow code injection by malicious web users into the web pages viewed by other users. Examples of such code include HTML code [...]
Man Responsible For Missing White House Emails Dies in Plane Crash 2008-12-23 05:41:12 Mike Connell, the man many say is responsible for the WhiteHouse
email scandal and perhaps the riggings of the 2000 and 2004 elections was killed in a plane crash Friday night when the single engine plane he was flying crashed in a residential neighborhood in Ohio. Connell also worked on John McCain’s campaign. Here’s [...] Read more:Emails
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