Category Archives: Security

Microsoft Patch Tuesday

Please click here and read about what patches will be released.

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Phishing and Wardriving

Phishing and Wardriving are coming back around. Please read this article and familiarize yourselves. http://www.informationarmor.com/2010/05/27/the-internet/

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Attacks, Exploits and Patches

Widespread Web Site Attacks Reported Following the reports of high profile web sites like syfy.com and php-nuke.org being compromised, another widespread attack on web servers has been reported. The attacks compromise sites running WordPress and other popular blog software. The attack mechanism is not yet known, but clients should ensure that the latest WordPress version [...]

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Password Complexity Trick

I just read http://lifehacker.com/5516188/shift-your-fingers-one-key-to-the-right-for-easy+to+remember-but-awesome-passwords and it makes sense to help create complex passwords. I’ve read One Man’s blog, where John talks about guessing or brute force attacking to hack your password. The introduction of special characters dramatically increases the time it takes for an automated program to try and guess your password. John writes about [...]

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April Patches and Updates

1. Denial of Service Conditions in Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SMTP Service (MS10-024 CVE-2010-0024) Microsoft Windows SMTP Service and Microsoft Exchange are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the improper handling of DNS Mail Exchanger (MX) resource records by the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol component. As SMTP services are often exposed to the [...]

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Joke

During a recent password audit at a company, it was found that a receptionist was using the following password: “MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofySacramento” When asked why she had such a long password, she said she was told that it had to be at least 8 characters long and include at least one capital…

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Top Tips for Twenty Ten

Rules of Social Networking Pay attention to what you post and upload. Social networking is public. Consider images, videos, and information you publish You shouldn’t publish your address, date of birth, etc. Use a nick-name that only your friends know. Choose your friends with care. Do not accept friend requests from people you do not [...]

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Why Strong Passwords Are Important

Most systems out in the world are secure. Very secure. Thousands of administrators and technical personnel apply patches and configurations to millions of systems throughout the world on a daily basis. In August 2009, someone hacked into Google, but not through a technical vulnerability within the Google infrastructure. A hacker found a personal email account. [...]

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New Vulnerabilities and Fixes

Customers are urged to visit http://www.informationarmor.com/2010/01/29/vulnerabilities/ on our sister site, there are some new vulnerabilities and fixes for them.

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Online Identity Needs Backup?

This link will lead you to our story on Backupify.

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