Thursday, June 30, 2011
Bloomberg: 60% Of Users Break USB Security
BLOOMBERG ARTICLE ON USB SECURITY
Here's a must-read article from Bloomberg about USB security
You will shocked at the findings:
and
Click here to read the Bloomberg article:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-27/human-errors-fuel-hacking-as-test-shows-nothing-prevents-idiocy.html
How Argent Stops This:
http://www.Argent.com/products/asec.php
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Here's a must-read article from Bloomberg about USB security
You will shocked at the findings:
"Staff secretly dropped computer discs and USB thumb drives in the parking lots of government buildings and private contractors. Of those who picked them up, 60 percent plugged the devices into office computers, curious to see what they contained. If the drive or CD case had an official logo, 90 percent were installed."
and
"In a February attack on Sacramento, California-based security firm HBGary and its sister, HBGary Federal, the hacker group Anonymous said it cracked the passwords of CEO Aaron Barr and Chief Operating Officer Ted Vera, and discovered they used the same passwords in e-mail accounts, LinkedIn, Twitter and elsewhere. Anonymous said it deleted "gigabytes of backups and research data" from company servers."
Click here to read the Bloomberg article:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-27/human-errors-fuel-hacking-as-test-shows-nothing-prevents-idiocy.html
How Argent Stops This:
http://www.Argent.com/products/asec.php
To see more of Argent's powerful security and compliance reports, visit:
http://Security.Argent.com
The Executive Guide to Integrated Talent Management
The breakthrough new book The Executive Guide to Integrated Talent Management is now available - get your copy today!
Learn firsthand about the best practices of corporations like 3M, Agilent, GE, Hertz, General Mills and Cisco.
This breakthrough new book co-edited by i4cp's Kevin Oakes - an immediate sellout at ASTD's International Conference & Exposition - paves the way to integrated talent management by assembling the collective experience and insight of 20+ experts who examine research-based theories and current practices in highly successful enterprises.
Contributors - including David Ulrich, Marshall Goldsmith, Peter Cappelli, Noel Tichy, Ed Lawler, Jon Ingham, Beverly Kaye and executives from companies like 3M, Cisco, Agilent, GE, Hertz and General Mills - provide practical advice about how you can adopt effective, state-of-the-art methods in your own organization.
Learn more at i4cp.com/book
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Hackers Temporarily Cripple Al-Qaida
"The attack was carried out within the past few days by unknown hackers targeting al-Qaida's Internet communications systems. It was "well coordinated and involved the use of an unusual cocktail of relatively sophisticated techniques," Kohlmann said."Read more here!
Fail of the day: Myspace sold for $35M
I have no clue if anyone still uses or even cares about Myspace these days with it overly bloated interface, and in-house spammers....oops I mean "users"; but, it was sold for a disappointing $35M by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. I say disappointing because News Corp. bought it for $580M years ago when it was ...ahem....popular.
I think Myspace as we knew it is a thing of the past. If it would like to hang around maybe it should restructure the function of the company...here's an idea, let Myspace be a content provider for internet tv...I'll talk more about that idea in future blogs.
I think Myspace as we knew it is a thing of the past. If it would like to hang around maybe it should restructure the function of the company...here's an idea, let Myspace be a content provider for internet tv...I'll talk more about that idea in future blogs.
Tech Quote of the Day
"If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done." ~Scott Adams
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
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Tech Quote of the Day: 6/28/11
"As network administrator I can take down the network with one keystroke. It's just like being a doctor but without getting gooky stuff on my paws." ~Scott Adams
Monday, June 27, 2011
Tech Quote of the Day
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
~Suzie Wagner
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Tenable Network Security News - June 2011
The latest from our research, engineering & services teams
Comparing PCI, CIS & FDCC Certification Standards
Do you know the difference between the certification standards for vendors when it comes to the Payment Card Industry (PCI), Center for Internet Security (CIS) and the US Government's FDCC program? There are some significant differences between and misconceptions about these standards, of which both users and vendors should be aware.
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SecurityCenter 4.2 Released
Tenable SecurityCenter 4.2, the latest release of our solution for enterprise-grade information protection and compliance, is now available!
> More than 100 available dashboards that reveal mobile device vulnerabilities, social networking data exposure, PCI assets out of compliance and more
> 3D Visualization that makes it easy to see the security risk and compliance status of assets
> New dashboard development and sharing capabilities, giving you an opportunity to develop your own dashboards, collaborate with others and share across the community
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> SecurityCenter 4.2 Announcement
> SecurityCenter 4.2 Press Release
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> Dashboards Site
> More than 100 available dashboards that reveal mobile device vulnerabilities, social networking data exposure, PCI assets out of compliance and more
> 3D Visualization that makes it easy to see the security risk and compliance status of assets
> New dashboard development and sharing capabilities, giving you an opportunity to develop your own dashboards, collaborate with others and share across the community
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> SecurityCenter 4.2 Announcement
> SecurityCenter 4.2 Press Release
> SecurityCenter 4.2 Web Page
> Dashboards Site
Patching Best Practices
Do you know when to patch? How often? How about at home, is your home computer up-to-date on patches? June's Microsoft Patch Tuesday inspired us to take in-depth look at patching, outlining best practices that everyone, home users and enterprise users alike, should employ.
> Patching Best Practices
> Patching Best Practices
Nessus Android App Now Available
Now you can start, stop, or pause vulnerability scans--from your Android device! We recently released the Nessus App for Android, available for free in the Android Marketplace. With the app (compatible with devices running Android 2.2.x or higher), you can:
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Friday, June 24, 2011
LulzSec breaks into Arizona police computers, releases info
2 Year Old Dies In Daycare's Hot Van
When are people going to finally get it? Check and double check your vehicles for children. I've tried to understand how anyone could forget a child is in a vehicle, and the only thing I could come up with is maybe they had so much on their mind that they truly forget. If that's the case, we need instruments to remind us.
Please watch the video here!
In my opinion, it should be mandatory for any child care center that uses transportation for children to implement a system that alerts when a child is still left in the vehicle.
This can be easily done with the use of RFID transmitters & readers. Each child wears an indentifying tag embedded with an RFID transmitter that is scanned by an RFID reader which would keep track of those entering and exiting the vechile, sounding an alarm if the same number that entered the vehicle didn't exit it.
A similar system could and should be used in parents vehicles, and maybe in this particular situation the alarm could sound on the car as well as communicating with the parent's smartphone. Something must be done to prevent these unnecessary deaths.
Additional Confusion, External PCI Express
"To make sure there’s further confusion in the myriad ways you can connect an external device to your computer, the PCI special interest group says it is working on an external version of PCI Express, the standard already used internally in PCs for graphics cards, sound cards, and even SSDs. It would join eSATA, USB 3.0, and Intel’s new Thunderbolt interfaces as the latest ways to hook up things like external hard drives to your system."To learn more click here!
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Live Webinar: Mobile BI
Live Webinar: How Will Mobile Devices Revolutionize Business Intelligence?
Mobile devices are everywhere. But the adoption and maturity of mobile Business Intelligence (BI) has traditionally lagged behind other mobile enterprise applications for multiple reasons. However, larger mobile devices such as tablets and innovative approaches to online and offline BI technical architecture have begun to boost mobile BI adoption and maturity.
Attend this webinar and learn:
| • | What will drive mobile BI to higher adoption rates? |
| • | How will next-generation mobile BI revolutionize the overall use of BI? |
| • | What are some common mobile BI implementation challenges? |
| • | How can mobile BI help ensure that business processes and information are ubiquitous? |
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Boris Evelson of Forrester will discuss how you can leverage mobile to make more informed, faster decisions wherever you are.
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Tuesday, June 28th
10:00 AM PST / 1:00 PM EST
10:00 AM PST / 1:00 PM EST
| Featured Speaker |
 | Boris Evelson Vice President & Principal Analyst Forrester |
| Boris is a leading expert in business intelligence (BI) — a set of processes, methodologies, and technologies used to transform raw data into meaningful, useful, and action-oriented enterprise information. He delivers strategic guidance, helping enterprises define BI strategies, governance, and architectures and identify vendors and technologies. |
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