Millions of online accounts have been compromised so far this year alone. The growth of data stored online is unprecedented, but data security is not keeping pace. The data breach deluge of 2011 is swelling larger than ever before and calls for better security measures to be implemented by all online services from gaming to [...]
There are plenty of ways to keep a network safe, and due to differences in price and scope, no solution is likely to act as a one-size-fits-all answer. Network professionals should perhaps know that the Sourcefire Intrusion Prevention System was named the Best Intrusion Detection/Prevention Solution at the 2011 SC Awards, however.
Keeping networks safe may soon become significantly easier thanks to fresh offerings from Cisco. Cisco has introduced new “context-aware” security solutions meant to keep everyone safe regardless of whether they use mobile technology, virtual working environments, or just about anything else.
I used to leech Internet access from a neighbor, but after they gave me grief about it, I set up my own wireless network and am paying for my own Internet. Good citizen, right? Problem is, every time I start up my trusty old MacBook it automatically picks my neighbor’s network and I have to [...]
When Nikki Craft woke up one morning recently and checked her websites, they were not working. In fact, all 20 of her high-traffic websites were down. After further investigation into the issue, she learned that the domain names had been suspended by the registrar due to invalid WHOIS data on the domain name WHOIS record–here [...]
We covered the recent release of FireSheep, a Firefox plugin that easily allowed the hijacking of user sessions for popular websites such as Facebook. Although this plugin was intended to raise awareness of a vulnerability in the authentication system used by a large percentage of websites, it has widely been seen as a nuisance and [...]
It was very common to see unsecured and open wireless networks when the technology was first emerging. As wireless networks and devices became more popular, awareness of how unsafe these open wireless networks really are also grew. Secure wireless technologies quickly became the norm, and now it often seems difficult to find an open/unsecured network. [...]
Perhaps the old cliche is true: less is more. Details from a recent study by Beyond Trust has found that over 90% of the Windows 7 vulnerabilities from the past year can be guarded against by simply restricting user access. Removing administrative rights from a Windows workstation adds an additional level of security.
This past week, Google and Verizon introduced a joint legislative proposal. Shortly thereafter, blogs and forums filled with buzz and chatter over this two-page document. Many of those blogs and posts were targeted at Google, claiming that they are proposing things in violation of net neutrality. What exactly is net neutrality, and why is Google [...]
Today I was working on a Flex application which uses a lot of Remoting calls to a bunch of ColdFusion CFC methods. I wondered what the most efficient way of securing these methods would be since they are effectively wide open to the world as they all (have to) specify access=”remote”. This means that anyone [...]