If you’re not in Ohio, maybe you haven’t paid much attention to the happenings of a certain intern and a stolen backup tape, so let me fill you in: – News reports a backup tape was stolen from an intern, working for the state’s, car. It is believed the tape has personal information, including SSN’s…
Saw this in Support Alert today, and thought it’s worth publicizing. As much as the common security advice is not to run as Admin, there are a number of tools that simply don’t work without the Admin rights. It’s frustrating. Programs That Won’t Run in a Limited User AccountWorking with a Windows limited users account…
So here’s a good one. Angela logged in to her MySpace account to send a message to a friend of hers. When she did, it gave her an error about the spam filter, then she was prompted to change her password because her account had been phished, which it hadn’t. Stay with me on this…
I read with interest the post by Security Monkey today about swatting flies, not because I don’t agree with him about his point, but his example really brought to mind another of my pet peeves about working in IT generally, but Help Desk specifically. Let’s start with his example: Your help desk reports to you…
I saw this article on-line today, Top Ten Reasons e-Discovery is a Major Headache for Most Companies and Lawyers. I couldn’t agree more. In fact, the more I learn about my new job, and the whole areas of electronic discovery and litigation support the more overwhelming it seems. Seriously, if your company was party to…
When I first read about G.ho.st the other day, the system admin part of me wondered if an on-line virtual computer could be the end of blocking IM, web-mail and social networking, because anyone with a little smarts could figure out to go to the VM, login, and use that to “browse” to all the…