March 2007 Archives

Listen to or download the entire 10:39 podcast below: Download file What follows is a summary of my discussion with Amir Lev, the President and CTO of Commtouch, concerning image spam: what it is, why it exists, how to stop... Read More..

According to Brian Kreb's Security Fix, cybercriminals are exploiting a number of security vulnerabilities in MailEnable, an email server program offered by many large Web hosting companies. Over the past several months, MailEnable has released a half-dozen patches to try... Read More..

According the the Anti-Phishing Working Group’s most recent report, Phishing websites and crimeware are at record levels. Also, for the first time, ISPs replaced the retail sector as the second-most targeted group, although both are still far behind financial services.... Read More..

Listen to or download the entire 7:56 podcast below: Download file The following is a summary of my podcast with Alex Bakeman, Chairman and Founder of Ecora. Current data security compliance laws. Sarbanes-Oxley, which is for public companies; GLBA, which... Read More..

While this isn’t exactly a security issue (unless, of course, you’re high-up in the Chinese government), I’m constantly fascinated by how certain societies struggle to keep a lid on all the information and personal narratives and basically our freedom of... Read More..

Keeping up with your email is now absolutely essential no matter where you are, which means sometimes jumping on free WiFi connections in airports or coffee shops or at conventions. But how big of a risk is it? If you... Read More..

Apple patched at least 46 weaknesses and vulnerabilities in Mac OS X as well as popular Apple applications in a release on Tuesday. The updates fixed numerous problems with the open-source components of Apple's operating system and fixed seven flaws... Read More..

The feds have charged three Indian nationals with hacking online brokerage accounts and using them to manipulate the stock of Google, Sun Microsystems and 12 other companies. The three men, Jaisankar Marimuthu, Chockalingam Ramanathan and Thirugnanam Ramanathan, were indicted. This... Read More..

As I blogged about it here, a DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack on the backbone of the internet in February inevitably had little effect. This is in thanks to new protection technology the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and... Read More..

Download file Introduction In the following discussion with Brendan Hannigan, the Chief Operating Officer of Q1 Labs, Hannigan details how Q1 Labs utilizes the resources of New Brunswick University students to gather security information and engage in attack simulations... Read More..

On Monday Apple issued security patches to plug various security holes in its QuickTime media player software (which is now QuickTime 7.1.5), fixing at least eight separate and serious vulnerabilities. The updates are for Mac OS X, Windows 2000, Windows... Read More..