Tech Tips From a NYC System Administrator
Man, security is getting tougher. When the servers at a well known security firm get hacked, we need to rethink our security protocols and business practices. From Sophos/Naked Security: Hackers have broken into the servers of RSA, the security division of EMC, and stolen information related to the company’s SecurID two-factor authentication products. Read the…
President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans, a White House official said here today. If it weren’t for the Wikileaks debacle (nice security there guys!), the fact that government programs can’t be financed properly (Social Security, Medicare, the Postal…
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Get used to it. Moving things to the “Cloud” is becoming more popular. So will the data breaches… Company data belonging to customers of Microsoft’s hosted business suite BPOS has been accessed and downloaded by other users of the software. Read more…Microsoft BPOS cloud service hit with data breach – Computerworld.
We know that Gawker Media had it’s databases hacked, releasing millions of usernames and passwords. Now spammers/hackers are taking advantage of that story to send out spam emails like this: Beware…
From TechCrunch: Developer Eric Butler has exposed the soft underbelly of the web with his new Firefox extension, Firesheep, which will let you essentially eavesdrop on any open Wi-Fi network and capture users’ cookies. As Butler explains in his post, “As soon as anyone on the network visits an insecure website known to Firesheep, their…
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I used to be afraid of Google. Now, I’m more afraid of Facebook. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging a federal judge to dismiss Facebook’s claims that criminal law is violated when its users opt for an add-on service that helps them aggregate their information from a variety of social networking sites. In a…
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Spam. We all get them. Some come with attachements that are just viruses or trojans. Some come from folks in Nigeria who want to give us $2000 cash. Some purportedly come from financial institutions looking to verify your info. What we need to remember is that NO bank, NO credit card company, NO financial institution…
Thankfully, they got rid of the provision that gave the President a kill switch for the Internet: …it no longer gives the president unilateral power to disconnect networks from the Internet in the event of a major cyberattack… Cybersecurity Bill Passes Senate Committee — Government IT Security — InformationWeek.
Make sure your IE has the up-to-date patches (or switch to Firefox) and update to the latest Adobe Flash Potent malware link infects almost 300,000 webpages • The Register. A security researcher has identified a new attack that has infected almost 300,000 webpages with links that direct visitors to a potent cocktail of malicious exploits….
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I use Godaddy.com for alot of my domains, both for domain registration and hosting, so this story doesn’t give me the warm & fuzzy feeling I’d like from a domain registration company. But nevertheless, it reminds us that we should change our passwords regularly and make sure that they are strong. And it also reminds…