It has been a spooky month, both in and out of IT security. Here are some tips your users can take with them and use every month of the year.
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Commentary: Even if it's not perfect, there's a lot to like about Microsoft's Exploitability Index.
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Even major politicians aren't except from cybercrime, with experts suspecting that Sarkozy fell victim to 'carding.'
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Don't point the finger at hackers for all security woes. Point hacker tools at yourself to see what's wrong with your stuff, instead.
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Inside job almost impossible to prevent, especially when suspect has legitimate access to data.
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A quick Google search yielded everything the cracker needed to know to reset Palin's Yahoo e-mail password. So what is your mother's maiden name?
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When it comes to our computers, the classic principle of “innocent until proven guilty” is simply too dangerous.
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Is the amount of junk e-mail you receive daily driving you crazy? Wait until the hackers begin leveraging interest in the elections.
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The site was hit by a SQL injection attack and connects users to a sleeper site.
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Making the Web safer for kids is the idea, but how realistic is the proposal?
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Second generation coming next month, Nehalem support due in a year.
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Researcher details Gadgets-based attacks that could leave users at the mercy of hackers.
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The encryption options are plentiful but good luck finding a way to appease your DBAs. Voltage employs some clever tricks for minimizing shocks to the system.
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Panda software notes a new approach to an old way of producing malicious code.
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A security expert revisits an earlier examination he made of the relative security of Mac Tiger and Windows XP.
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Undertaking the sometimes daunting task of deploying authentication provides a great excuse for IT managers to begin tackling the sprawling beast that is today's modern corporate email infrastructure.
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A security experts hope the industry can keep that momentum going and start really paying attention to the security of our software, and not just try to retro-engineer security through largely superficial bolt-on products.
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As the new year dawns, some pressing security threats deserve more attention. For example, Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) is remarkably wide spread.
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Certain email snafus can be fatal to the effectiveness of a company's entire email strategy and can tarnish the goodwill associated with their good name.
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