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The Phishing Guide: Understanding and Preventing Phishing Attacks

This paper [PDF] covers the technologies and security flaws phishers exploit to conduct their attacks, and provides detailed vendor-neutral advice on what organisations can do to prevent future attacks. Security professionals and customers can use this Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 05, 2009 9:00 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Protecting your computer while travelling

Protecting computer equipment is something that everyone should be concerned with today. It seems every week there is a news report of another stolen laptop with sensitive or confidential data on it. Here is a checklist that will help you prepare and Read More...
Posted Monday, May 18, 2009 2:41 PM by chsecblo | 1 Comments

Managing the Windows Vista Firewall

If you're an IT pro who is looking a bit more seriously at Windows Vista for your enterprise environment, you should take a close look at the firewall. Once you realize what the Windows Vista firewall can do, you may want to renegotiate the agreement Read More...
Posted Monday, May 26, 2008 1:58 PM by chsecblo | 2 Comments

Application Lockdown with Software Restriction Policies

When IT professionals look to reduce the total cost of ownership, or TCO, of their desktop machines, there are two key strategies that often come to mind. The first one is to get your desktop users' accounts out of the Administrators group. And the second Read More...
Posted Monday, May 26, 2008 1:54 PM by chsecblo | 1 Comments

The Great Debate: Security by Obscurity

Security by obscurity is, in a nutshell, a violation of Kerckhoffs' Principle, which holds that a system should be secure because of its design, not because the design is unknown to an adversary. The basic premise of Kerckhoffs' Principle is that secrets Read More...
Posted Monday, May 26, 2008 1:44 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Cyber-Attacks and Cyber-Disasters: Are You Prepared?

Have you seen the recent television commercial that shows the Pentagon and says, "This building gets attacked 3 million times a day." The sad news is that it's true. Cyber-warfare and cyber-attacks have now become a reality. Ever consider how your business Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:24 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Infosec/Microsoft: Security community must work together

Microsoft has called on companies to work together to improve overall security, and not just rely on the police to do it for them. Ed Gibson, Microsoft's chief security advisor in the UK, said during his keynote at Infosecurity Europe 2008 that security Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:22 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Microsoft calls for talks on Internet trust, safety

Microsoft today called for broad discussions about the safety of the Internet in an initiative it dubbed "End to End Trust" in a white paper released during the RSA Conference that opened today in San Francisco. In a keynote address at the security conference, Read More...
Posted Friday, April 11, 2008 12:16 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Ballmer Outlines Vision For Next Computing Revolution

The rise of PCs, graphical user interfaces, the Internet, and Web 2.0 technologies have obviously had major impacts on the IT industry, but according to Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer, the computing revolution that's about to take place will Read More...
Posted Monday, March 10, 2008 10:25 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Identity management critical for security, government IT shops say

A majority of government IT organizations say identity management is very important to securing their networks and will become even more so over the next five years, but that funding to keep pace is a major impediment to growth. The respondents also said Read More...
Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 10:14 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

The First Step on the Road to More Secure Software is admitting you have a Problem

Michael Howard on SDL and the need for it; comments onJeff Jones blogs. See SDL blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/sdl/archive/2008/02/21/the-first-step-on-the-road-to-more-secure-software-is-admitting-you-have-a-problem.aspx Urs Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 1:45 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

ITU study group Q.22/1 - Report on best practices for a national approach to cybersecurity

A management framework for organizing national cybersecurity efforts: http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/cyb/cybersecurity/docs/itu-draft-cybersecurity-framework.pdf Urs Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:28 PM by chsecblo | 1 Comments

Introducing SAFECode [Michael Howard]

SAFECode, the Software Assurance Forum for Excellence in Code, introduced its first white paper, "Software Assurance: An Overview of Current Industry Best Practices." The organization was founded by Microsoft, Symantec, EMC, SAP and Juniper to advance Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:15 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

German Police Creating LE Trojan

German cops are pushing ahead with controversial plans, yet to be legally approved, to develop "remote forensic software" - in other words, a law enforcement Trojan. Leaked documents outline proposals by German firm Digitask to develop software to intercept Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2008 7:51 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Minimizing User Rights Can Increase Security

Taking a least-privilege approach to user accounts is a key part of any in-depth defense strategy, many analysts and security pros say. "I think it's very important … not even just as [a component] of security, but in the broader sense [of] risk posed Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 8:42 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments
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