Security

E-mail Archiving Stupidity

James Gaskin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:19:01 -0500

I live in the Dallas area, but not in the city of Dallas. That means my children were outside the horribly mis-managed Dallas schools, but we're still under the thumbs of idiotic Dallas County officials. How idiotic? How about this recent story, “E-mail Deletion Plan Criticized,” about officials wanting to delete e-mail after 90 days. Have none of them heard of all the new regulations about e-mail archiving?

Apple quietly recommends using antivirus software

ITworld staff — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:53:40 -0500

Apple, which has long held the position its operating system is immune to security problems, is recommending that users install security software.

Holiday Travel: Ways to Keep Your Laptop, Privacy Safe

ITworld staff — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:27:40 -0500

Ten tips for a safer and less hectic holiday season.

New Windows worm builds massive botnet

ITworld staff — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:02:37 -0500

The worm exploiting a critical Windows bug that Microsoft Corp. patched with an emergency fix in late October is being used to build a new botnet, a security researcher said Monday.

London hospitals almost back online after worm infection

ITworld staff — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:46:57 -0500

Three London hospitals whose computer systems were infected with a relatively old worm are now almost back online.

How do you encode hundreds of data points into one single graph? Use Sparklines.

Raffael Marty — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:13:50 -0500

Have you tried to visualize your traffic flows? Did you have the problem that your graphs got really cluttered? Did you find a way around that problem? Did you filter data? Did you aggregate multiple nodes into one?

Survey: Despite Risks, Employees Still Holiday Shop at Work

ITworld staff — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:37:17 -0500

Most workers will do some kind of online shopping from their work computer in the coming weeks, according to a recent survey from ISACA, a global, nonprofit association of IT professionals.

Anti-virus no defense against botnets, says vendor

ITworld staff — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:17:22 -0500

A new analysis of botnets has come up with a possible reason for their prodigious ability to infect PCs - many anti-virus programs are near to useless in blocking the binaries used to spread them.

Estonian ISP cuts off control servers for Srizbi botnet

ITworld staff — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:20:07 -0500

An Estonian ISP that temporarily hosted the control servers for a botnet responsible for a large portion of the world's spam has cut off those servers.

How spyware nearly sent a teacher to prison

ITworld staff — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:10:15 -0500

If there's a poster child for the dangers of spyware, it's Julie Amero. Here's her story.