The Register had an interesting article the other day noting how Chase will no longer support Chrome and Opera because “creaking Internet Explorer 6 is more secure and popular than either Google’s Chrome or Opera.” Of course various versions of…
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Cookie Use … How Agencies Should Set Example for Broader Industry
I came across an article yesterday discussing the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) recent guidance allowing the government to use “persistent cookies.” For over a decade they have not been able to use such technologies to track user website…
What! No CI(S)O*?
Written by Guest Poster Wade Woolwine The Chief Information (Security) Officer* is a top level executive who is responsible for defining and executing a plan for identifying, cataloging, and protecting information assets throughout a company or government agency. Seems like…
The Importance of Corporate Verses Personal Information
Two semi-recent articles about medical data being stolen caught my attention because they seemed out of place next to the headlines that decried PowerPoint and Kylin. The articles outline the massive amounts of medical data and patient records that were…
Great Expectations
DarkReading recently published an interesting article entitled “BT Study: Most Enterprises Expect to Get Hacked This Year.” I’d say that that’s a safe assumption, since in the case of most large organizations, their electronic footprint is everywhere. When you pair that…
Recent Vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader Due to Scripting
Somewhere, the creators of Adobe Reader are weeping. And if they’re not, it won’t be long until they do; with all of the recent vulnerabilities swirling around Adobe Reader, things are going from bad to worse. But just how bad…
Security Risks Due To Social Networking Sites Show The Need for Better Security Awareness
A recent article by The Register almost makes you feel bad for social networking sites. In addition to their existing reputation for wasting time and ruining the grammatical aptitude of teenagers everywhere, social networking sites are now being accused of…
Software Security Better But Still Has A Long Way to Go
In the past few days I’ve come across of two articles that, according to their titles, seem to imply that the problem of software security is practically solved. In the article “Software [In]security: Software Security Comes of Age,” Gary McGraw discusses…
Recent Studies Stress Back to Basics
This week was awash with new studies that generated a great deal of buzz about what’s right, and what’s not so right, about current security practices. For those of you who haven’t seen the reports yet (or don’t have the…
Why Intranets Aren’t As Safe As Everyone Thinks They Are
Addressing the problem of companies not taking insider threats seriously, the “Many Enterprises Still Don’t Recognize Insider Threat, Studies Say” article on DarkReading made some much-needed points about intranets not being the secure entities that many companies believe them to…