‘Emerging Threats’ Archives
Think Twice About Where You’re Entrusting Private Data
Today's story about a Google engineer fired for breaching teenage users’ accounts provides more proof of why [...]
Secure Privileged Identities: The Shoemaker’s Children Go Barefoot
A recent New York Times article, “A Strong Password Isn’t the Strongest Security,” offers a great assessment of [...]
Will We Buy the Rope?
This week it was reported that the government of China ordered banks and other enterprises to limit use of foreign [...]
Data Breaches at Colleges and Universities – Are You and Your Children Protected?
Last week Campus Technology Magazine reported three separate security breaches at major universities. In June Florida [...]
Pixie Dust Won’t Help Apple iTunes Hack Victims
The recent Apple iTunes Hack is clear evidence of why supply chain management and tough vendor qualification are so [...]
Applauding the Lieberman-Collins CyberSecurity Bill S 3480
The proposed Lieberman-Collins bill S 3480 "Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010" has been criticized [...]
Your Top Vulnerability?
There are some common IT security mistakes that can lead to embarrassing data breaches like we've seen with the recent [...]
AT&T iPad Breaches are Really About Application Security
Ericka Chickowski published this timely Dark Reading article about the Apple iPad customer data breach at AT&T, [...]
Beyond Compliance
Depending on your industry, your organization is probably subject to regulatory standards that determine both your IT [...]
The ASP.NET Security Hole
Millions of ASP.NET web sites use embedded passwords - including connection strings to databases - that never get [...]
