US-CERT (U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team) based its alert on news Thursday from Trend Micro’s TippingPoint group, which said it had been told by Apple that QuickTime on Windows had been deprecated, or dropped from support, meaning no future security updates will be issued and development has been halted.
Lose it, it has vulnerabilities and won’t be updated. That is a recipe for disaster on your PC.
The other day I saw a PC that had been completely overrun with trojans, virii, and spyware. I won’t say where I saw this particular PC, but suffice it to say it had all the appropriate software installed originally to keep this from happening. However, after cleaning up the trojan that had the AV disabled,…
Our CIO today decided to send the IT department the monthly statistics for our Postini spam filters. It’s been a few years since I worked in a place where I was the Postini Administrator, so I haven’t seen the percentages of mail that actually gets delivered in a while. It was around 30% at the…
To borrow from Cris Carter, “Come On Man!” Actually, it’s easy to blame some lazy IT folks for not disabling accounts, but I’d be willing to bet that quite a few of these are actually some third party app, or service, that the company uses, and doesn’t have a good procedure to sync up terminated…
As IBM’s Kuhn explained in a follow-up interview, these medical records can be leveraged for a wide variety of nefarious purposes. In some cases, it’s about stealing a person’s identity and billing them for a surgery or a prescription, and in others it’s about opening a new line of credit. Security researcher Avi Rubin told…
Yeah I got an invite to the Alpha test of Trillian Astra. What did you think I was talking about? Is there something else going on this week? 😉 Anyway, I had actually forgotten all about signing up as being interested, it’s been that long. I actually haven’t been using Trillian a whole lot lately….
Hint – be careful with your passwords. Fortunately, there are some fundamental things you can to do if you want your passwords to be secure: Change your passwords regularly – at least once a year. Don’t reuse old passwords – you’re going to have to make up a new one every time for every account….
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