Interesting Stuff From Microsoft

My colleague Dave Ladd has a post "Security Education v. Security Training:"

Unfortunately, there's an assumption held by many in our (IT) community that the road to better security leads to “drinking from the fire hose” – that is to say, employees are rocketed through week long training classes, then drilled and tested on security topics. Without the necessary exposure to secure systems design and concepts, more often than not these classes simply become a blur.

FRI 04 JAN. 2008 |Featured in: App Security

Vista Voices

THU 01 FEB. 2007 |Featured in: App Security

New Year. New Patches.

Welcome back from your break, although I am assuming you were able to take one and have not forgotten the delights of Christmas yet.

TUE 09 JAN. 2007 |Featured in: App Security

Risky business this shopping lark

I was asked to give a quote the other day on some findings from Kaspersky Labs who did a survey on consumers attitudes to online shopping.

MON 11 DEC. 2006 |Featured in: App Security

Taking the IE 7.0 Plunge

I decided to take the plunge and upgrade one of the PCs chez Stanley to use IE 7.0 the other day.

Like many people I had avoided using IE over the past couple of years in favour of Firefox, which appears to be more secure than IE even if that security is predicated on its smaller market share and therefore less reason for it to be targeted.

MON 23 OCT. 2006 |Featured in: App Security

Scrap Cars and Exploits

Pop quiz. You run IE in your business and another flaw is found in the software, which could be exploited by hackers. Microsoft say they won’t release a patch immediately, leaving your version of IE vulnerable to attack. Do you install a third party fix to address the problem or wait until Microsoft release an “official” patch?

WED 04 OCT. 2006 |Featured in: App Security

Is Internet Banking Secure?

I don’t apologise for the really lame title of this blog, as this is a subject that appears to have been done to death over the past few years. There seems to be two camps – those that are cool about internet banking and those that won’t be seen within a mile of a PC linked up to a bank.

FRI 29 SEPT. 2006 |Featured in: App Security

Firefox 2 Nearly Ready

THU 28 SEPT. 2006 |Featured in: App Security

Some Web Sites are Bad

FRI 22 SEPT. 2006 |Featured in: App Security

Zotob Gang Banged Up

TUE 19 SEPT. 2006 |Featured in: App Security