Web 2.0
« Previous EntriesWorried about Your Facebook being Indexed by Google?
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010Here is how to keep your data from search engines:
1. Click on your Profile page
2. Hover your mouse over the Settings menu at the top right and click “Privacy Settings” from the list that appears.
3. Click “Search” from the list of choices on the next page.
4. Uncheck the box labeled “Allow” next to the second [...]
IT Security Highlights from DHS 1-06-2010
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010Symantec Product Hits End-of-Decade Snafu
Symantec’s Endpoint Protection Manager server product is erroneously marking signature updates issued this year as out of date. Antivirus, antispyware and intrusion protection updates with a date after Dec. 31, 2009, at 11:59 p.m. are considered out of date by the software. The problem affects the Endpoint Protection v11.x and v12.x [...]
IT Security Highlights from DHS Report 1-4-2010
Monday, January 4th, 2010Fake Emails Concerning H1N1 Registrations
Fake emails from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are urging people to sign up for swine flu vaccine registrations. Officials at the CDC this week released an advisory about the e-mails, which call for adults to create a personal H1N1 (swine flu) vaccination profile on the cdc.gov Web [...]
Info Sec Highlights from the DHS Open Source Report 12-30-2009
Thursday, December 31st, 20092010 Security Predictions: Adobe will be Hacker’s Favorite Targets
In its “2010 Threat Predictions,” security vendor McAfee said Adobe Systems’ Flash and Acrobat Reader products will become the preferred targets for criminal hackers. Adobe’s CTO acknowledged recently that his company’s software is being attacked more frequently, and said the company has stepped up its efforts to [...]
Info Sec Highlights from the DHS Open Source Report 12-29-2009
Thursday, December 31st, 2009Microsoft Confirms 0-Day IIS Security Vulnerability
A zero-day security vulnerability affecting Internet Information Services (IIS) was reported just before Christmas, and Microsoft has already provided the first response last week. The issue in question affects version 6 of IIS on a fully patched Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2; however, additional IIS releases could be affected. According [...]
Chopra is worth Watching as New CTO
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009In his weekly radio address, President Obama announced that he has appointed Aneesh Chopra as the country’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Chopra will be working closely with the nation’s first CIO, Vivek Kundra, to continue to enhance information security and privacy across the federal government, direct policy, oversee federal technology spending, and oversee government enterprise [...]
Twitter Worm
Sunday, April 12th, 2009F-Secure has information regarding a cross-site scripting worm spreading in Twitter profiles for several hours last night. Twitter users started reporting that their profile had sent Twitter messages without their knowledge. Messages looked like this:
Many users thought the ‘tweets’ were legitimate communications from trusted friends and clicked on the link to ’stalk daily’. That caused [...]
Would you sacrifice your Facebook friends for a Whopper?
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009Some of you are old enough to remember Burger King’s Where’s the Beef commercial from the 1980s. The commercial features three old ladies looking at an exaggeratedly large hamburger bun with a tiny hockey puck of a hamburger. Famously crabby Clara Peller, exclaims “Where is the Beef?” Now, the Web 2.0 folks are asking ‘where [...]
Child Pornography Charges against Your Teenager?
Thursday, January 15th, 2009Do you know what your kids are doing on the Internet?
Are your kids uploading pictures to social networking sites, or uploading videos to sites like You Tube?
No big deal?
Don’t ask, don’t tell?
Think again parents…
The London Times reports an alarming trend with teenagers and tweens emailing and texting suggestive messages and pictures. What started out as [...]
New Year Resolution: update acceptable use policy to include Web 2.0
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009Happy New Year!It is very tempting to write about the top ten technology gadgets of 2008 or the top ten security problems for 2009, but I just can’t take anymore! Who let the paparazzi into technology reporting? Those articles would be more valuable if the authors would evaluate their predictions from the previous year and [...]
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