The Latest in IT Security

Posts Tagged ‘user education’

The targeted attack campaign dubbed Red October raises an interesting question for people working on the frontline of corporate security. How to defend one’s own organization against such attacks? And the good news is that at least for campaigns such as Red October, the information has been available for a long time already. From a […]

Read more ...

Adobe pushed an emergency update to its ubiquitous Flash player yesterday that closed holes on 6 separate vulnerabilities. Of the 6, 4 were related directly to code execution (CVE-2011-2426, CVE-2011-2427, CVE-2011- 2428, CVE-2011-2430) One revolves around a universal cross-site scripting issue (CVE-2011-2444), and the last vulnerability can lead to information disclosure (CVE-2011-2429). We recommend that […]

Read more ...

Last week I found an interesting Facebook phishing site, and grabbed a screenshot to do a quick user education post about it. Here is what the "facebookpolice" site looked like: Notice that when I typed in my (fake) password, it wasn’t auto-converted into "**********" like a real password box would do. This is a dead […]

Read more ...


Categories

THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2024
WHITE PAPERS

Mission-Critical Broadband – Why Governments Should Partner with Commercial Operators:
Many governments embrace mobile network operator (MNO) networks as ...

ARA at Scale: How to Choose a Solution That Grows With Your Needs:
Application release automation (ARA) tools enable best practices in...

The Multi-Model Database:
Part of the “new normal” where data and cloud applications are ...

Featured

Archives

Latest Comments