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June 16, 2011
The US Senate is just the latest target in what seems to be an unending string of hacks this summer against high-profile targets—including Citigroup, Sony...
March 21, 2011
I’ve been watching the developing situation with the so-called Rustock spam-sending botnet this week. As first reported by Brian Krebs in his excellent “Krebs on...
March 04, 2011
As expected, our friends at Apple unveiled the iPad 2 this week … and with it, tablets are starting to look like really serious computing...
February 25, 2011
Over at the Huffington Post this week, there have been a couple of posts about Google having collected partial Social Security Numbers of children as...
February 23, 2011
An interesting Gartner press release from last week — “Gartner Says by Year-End 2013, Half of All Companies Will Have Been Asked to Produce Material...
January 14, 2011
From the “Hate to Say I Told You So” department…
As they say, all things come to an end and, as expected, the unusual lull in...
January 04, 2011
Over at Baseline magazine this week, writer Nick Wreden has a good article on “Social Media Policy Development,” summarizing that organizations need to develop firmly...
December 15, 2010
The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) claimed a victory as the US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on the so-called Warshak case (United States of...
December 13, 2010
First, “Good question!” And second, “Why did I ask this in the first place?”
Ran across two things recently that inspired me to write on this...
December 10, 2010
Hadn’t really posted anything here yet about the ongoing WikiLeaks saga, but like seemingly every other network security commentator in the world, I was tapped...
December 01, 2010
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a new warning recently about new phishing attacks carried out via SMS text or cellular voicemail messages. The...
November 30, 2010
As is traditional during the fourth quarter, IT vendors begin putting out predictions for the coming year. Both consumer privacy concerns and an increasing number...
November 23, 2010
As the 2010 holiday season gets into full swing, and retailers and consumers get ready for the biggest shopping days of the year—”Black Friday,” the...
November 15, 2010
The Wall Street Journal reports that the US federal government is looking at creating new laws and new oversight mechanisms in an effort to better...
October 29, 2010
Happy Halloweeeeemail… *ahem*. Yep, just in time for Halloween 2010, it’s time for a list of some of the year’s scariest email stories thus far.
Since...
