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…
Sort of a slow day today, which is ok, since I forgot to write about the seminar I was at yesterday! It was Are you Vulnerable? Wireless, Worms & CyberThreats put on by ISS . This turned out to actually be pretty good. I was expecting a big scare tactic followed by a sales pitch…
Monday, Monday. Actually today hasn’t been too bad, the new and improved security policy was rolled out this morning to staff, so today’s been busy answering questions, explaining to people what they need to get rid of, and why. We’re really working to root out unlicensed software, and spyware that’s gotten into some of our…