Here’s a good question regarding Trillian from Mumble Daily : If it can handle some connections through a proxy server and others not that’ll be real cool. We’ll see, though, how flexible it is. Now since I’m not using a proxy at home, and it would violate the security policy I wrote to install Trillian…
Well, I think the antivirus question I had was answered today. How on earth did something as simple as the gone.scr virus get spread so quickly? Obviously we had some people who we deal with get the virus because it was bouncing into our mail server in no time flat. Seems like at least 5-6…
Wow, Badtrans just seems to be everywhere doesn’t it? We’re still seeing quite a few copies of it flowing into the generic mailbox we have setup at work. One of my co-workers got it at home over the weekend too. She was asking me first thing this morning about the possibility of it spreading to…
I’ve been messing around a bit with the Hawking PN9245F router that I’ve got the home network and cable modem running through. I put it through some firewall tests and port scans, and it’s got me running in full stealth mode for the moment. Gotta’ love that! It wasn’t even all that difficult to setup…
BadTrans is out there and looking quite active, at least based on the number of infected emails I’ve seen come bouncing into our network here at work. We did have one person get infected, two days after I posted a warning about it, and instructions on dealing with it, which is quite frustrating. Turns out…
Users are the weakest link, security experts warn | Computerworld News & Features Story This is pretty good stuff. This article really shows the things you need your senior management folks to know and buy into. It took me a long time to get folks here to buy into security, and since it’s still in…