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Will We Buy the Rope?

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 [...]

Insider Threats, Misused Privileges are Leading Causes of Security Breaches

Insider Threats, Misused Privileges are Leading Causes of Security Breaches

Last week Verizon Business released its 2010 Data Breaches and Investigations Report with some fascinating results. [...]

Data Breaches at Colleges and Universities – Are You and Your Children Protected?

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

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

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?

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

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, [...]

Compliance Is Not Security

Compliance Is Not Security

In recent years many organizations have become subject to one or more regulatory compliance regulations.  But despite [...]

Safeguarding Application Credentials

Safeguarding Application Credentials

There’s just too much misinformation out there about securing application credentials – the operating system, [...]

The ASP.NET Security Hole

The ASP.NET Security Hole

Millions of ASP.NET web sites use embedded passwords - including connection strings to databases - that never get [...]

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