How to Keep Corporate Secrets a Secret
One of the problems with corporate data breaches is the catastrophic risk to corporations when trade secrets, customer lists, pricing data and other critical information are exposed. Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen and Harry Lewis, authors of Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion, explain how companies can use the right mix of process, people and advanced technologies to keep their data secure and their CIOs out of the headlines. -
There is nothing like a data breach to bring a CIO unwanted publicity. We read all the time about these costly spills of precious corporate data, from the British government exposing the records of 25 million citizens, to the TJX Companies' loss of 45.6 million credit card and debit card records. ...
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Financial Site Security Research Weak On Methodology and Timeliness
The tests used in a paper reported on last week were questionable back in 2006 when the data was collected. Today they are merely interesting, but not all that illustrative of reality. - A study by researchers at the University of
Michigan finds that more than 75% of bank web sites had at least one design
flaw that could allow attackers to compromise users accounts or their
identities. Unfortunately, the data was collected in November and December of
2006. The research was prese...
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DNS Vulnerability Crisis Brings DNSSEC To Forefront Again
Politics and technical conflicts prevent a systemic solution to DNS security. So patch your DNS servers now! Think of the children! - Before we go anywhere else with this, if you haven't yet patched your DNS
servers against the
DNS spoofing bug revealed earlier this month, you've made a big mistake.
Drop everything, cancel your vacation and patch it now. The news and blogosphere
are full of advisories, such as this one
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Yahoo Zimbra Brings Offline Access to Web Mail, Documents
Yahoo's Zimbra beta brings offline access to the Yahoo Mail, Gmail and AOL Mail Web e-mail applications, as well as some Zimbra tools. The software makes a fine alternative to Google Apps and Microsoft Office despite uncertainty over Yahoo's future. - Zimbra, the Yahoo open-source messaging and
collaboration unit that tends to get overlooked amid all of the Microsoft-Yahoo
merger talk, is beta testing offline access for the Yahoo Mail, Gmail and AOL
Mail Web e-mail applications, as well as some Zimbra tools.
Leveraging POP (Post Office Pro...
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Does Merging Android, Symbian into a Single OS Make Sense?
An analyst argues that a marriage between the open-source mobile operating systems of Symbian and Android would be good for both Google and Nokia. The analyst contends that Nokia and other users of Symbian, principally Motorola, DoCoMo and Sony Ericsson, don't want to compete in the mobile operating system market. - Symbian, the open-source mobile operating system that powers the largest
share of smart phones on the market, and Android, Google's much-ballyhooed open-source
mobile operating system, currently under development, will merge and become one
open-source mobile operating system within the next three...
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Mark Zuckerberg Says Facebook Connect Is the Future
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks up Facebook Connect but little else during a question and answer session with reporters. The gist is that services such as Connect, Google's Friend Connect and MySpace's Data Availability initiatives are the future of social networks. - One thing Facebook execs have down pat is
slamming the door on reporters' questions. If they don't want to answer
something, they'll tell you point blank: There's nothing they want to talk
about today.
The quot;they, quot; of course, is more quot;him, quot; as in Facebook CEO
Mark Zuckerber...
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Microsoft and Its Open-Source Plans
Microsoft is now a major sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation and is putting its protocols and formats into a royalty-free license, all part of a larger open-source push. - PORTLAND, Ore. Once again, Microsoft has used the O'Reilly Open Source Convention as a venue to make a key announcement about the company's involvement with open-source initiatives.
In 2007, Microsoft announced that it had submitted a license to the OSI (Open Source Initiative) for approval. This y...
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Spam King in Murder-Suicide
Convicted penny stock e-mail hustler Eddie Davidson kills his wife and young daughter before taking his own life just days after escaping from a federal minimum security prison. - Convicted spam king Eddie Davidson has committed suicide after killing his wife and 3-year-old daughter, according to media reports. Just five days ago, Davidson, the infamous online hustler of penny stocks, escaped from federal prison in Florence, Colo.
According to a story by the Denver Post, Da...
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Gateway Goes Channel, Drops Online Sales
Gateway is expected to announce plans to abandon online and phone sales and move to an indirect channel, focusing exclusively on retailers, e-tailers and channel partners. - Gateway will be 100 percent channel, ending online and telephone sales of its desktops and notebooks, the company tells PC Magazine.
The company is expected to announce July 25 plans to move to an indirect channel, focusing exclusively on retailers, e-tailers and channel partners, said Lisa ...
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NIST Researchers Develop New Technique for Assessing Network Security
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed a new technique using attack graphs and the National Vulnerability Database to help IT administrators gauge the security of their network. - Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed a new analysis technique to help IT administrators assess security risk.
The patent-pending technique was developed by computer scientist Anoop Singhal and his research colleagues at George Mason University. Though NI...
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