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. [...]
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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 [...]
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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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MS10-002
Microsoft has released MS10-002 today. The update addresses 7 privately reported and 1 publicly reported vulnerability which is associated with the widely publicized attacks associated with Security Advisory 979352. There are four (4) Uninitialized Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities, two (2) HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities, one (1) XSS Filter Script Handling Vulnerability, and one (1) URL [...]
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Security Report
Microsoft Announces out of cycle Security Update schedule
Microsoft issued their Advanced Notification Service (ANS) notification to inform customers of the impending release of MS10-002 on January 21st, 2010. The update will be cumulative, in advance of the normal February release Cycle, and is intended to protect customers from the known, widely publicized attacks associated with [...]
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Are you sure you’re safe?
Holidays are the times when spammers and other anarchist types send malware related emails to everybody. Just because the holidays are now officially over, doesn’t mean your organization is safe. Many employees take vacation and the danger still exists in their mailbox awaiting for them to open. Email administrators may see an increase in infections [...]
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Microsoft IIS and Symantec Alert Management System
A vulnerability was recently reported in Microsoft IIS. Microsoft has since completed its investigation and “found that there is no vulnerability in IIS.” However, “there is an inconsistency in IIS 6 only in how it handles semicolons in URLs. It’s this inconsistency that the claims have focused on, saying this enables an attacker to bypass [...]
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Microsoft Security Essentials
Anti-malware testing group AV-Comparatives.org not only gave Microsoft Security Essentials a top rating for malware removal, but now they’ve given it their best ranking in their performance test as well.
AV-Comparatives.org ran a series of real-world tests running through common scenarios like downloading, extracting, copying, and encoding files, installing and launching applications, and they also ran through [...]
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Backup Your Cloud Data with Backupify.com
According to this article on ZDNet, you can get Free Backup of your cloud data. Not free as in Free Trial, but free forever.
“If you sign up during this time period, you get unlimited storage, for free. You get an account that is not a free trial, not free for a limited time, free forever,” [...]
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Adobe Threats
Adobe is indicating they have received reports of active exploitation of a 0day vulnerability affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.2 and earlier versions (CVE-2009-4324). We encourage our clients to use caution when opening PDF files. Links to malicious documents can easily be sent through spam or through links on seemingly non-malicious Web sites. We also [...]