Archive for August, 2008
My parents were having problems sending pictures from Picasa via email and asked me to take a look. Since we recently celebrated my sons 4th birthday with a Monster Truck party there were many pictures to be sent around so I jumped on it. I take a quick look and the problem is that Picasa [...]
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Tags: gmail, password reset, picasa, security question
What to do?
Recently I was asked by someone we will call Judy “What to do” about a particular situation. I am usually pretty quick with accessing the situation and giving an answer, but this was different. If a few details were missing my answer would be easy. With that said, I am going to post the details [...]
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Tags: breach, company secrets, confidential information, ethics, situation
Recently I had a conversation with someone who shipped a copy of an important financial database offsite to a consultant who was doing some work on it. Immediately my question was why, not only why he shipped it offsite but why it was necessary. This consultant works from home and pretty much refuses to come [...]
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Tags: consultant, database, encryption, Security, trust
I am a big proponent of user training. I believe that people don’t intentionally try to download malware or give away sensitive information but for the most part they just don’t understand it all. That is where we as IT professionals come into play.
We recently had a users machine get pwned. I won’t get into [...]
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Tags: dns hijacking, email scam, hacked, pwnage, User training
Back from the Con
Last week I spent the week in Vegas. I was not relaxing by the pool during the day and hitting the poker tables by night as many of you may think. Instead I spent the day in technical presentations and the nights catching up with my friends in the security industry talking shop at bars [...]
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Tags: BlackHat, Defcon
