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Source: Information Week - Posted by Alex
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Android devices may be viewed with more suspicion than rival smartphones because the more relaxed policing of Android Market apps suggests greater potential risk. But the openness of Android code turns out to be a benefit rather than a liability, at least from a security standpoint. |
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Source: ZDNet Blogs - Posted by Alex
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I have heard from lots of people that they are concerned about security on their Android devices, but it looks like Google is taking this concern seriously and will soon be offering a method for IT managers to have some control over Android devices in the workplace. |
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Source: Computer World - Posted by Anthony Pell
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Using a password manager application to automatically log into Web sites -- and to secure and manage all of your user IDs and passwords -- is a great help in organizing your digital life. But most password managers simply save your data in an encrypted file and then leave it stranded on one computer. |
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Source: Tech News World - Posted by Anthony Pell
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Though you're probably less likely to find yourself riddled with malware if you're running Linux rather than Windows, that doesn't mean security software should be ignored entirely. ClamTK -- or KlamAV, depending on which environment you use -- gives your Linux PC an antimalware guard dog that goes beyond the old "security by obscurity" strategy. |
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Source: The Register UK - Posted by Alex
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A 15-year-old vulnerability in technology used to authenticate users on Windows and Unix networks continues to put the organizations that rely on it at risk, a security researcher said on Thursday. |
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Source: Security Catalyst - Posted by Alex
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At this point in the identity management process it is time to consider what access the company’s job functions should have to begin creating roles and rules. This is the first step in automating provisioning and de-provisioning. Even without automation, creating and managing the roles and rules will make manual provisioning (and auditing!) quite a bit faster and definitely more accurate. |
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Source: H Security - Posted by Anthony Pell
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According to a posting on the Ubuntu developers mailing list, Ubuntu developers are planning to push the next release of Firefox, 3.6.4, to the current Ubuntu release, Lucid Lynx 10.04, and to older versions such as Hardy (8.04LTS), Jaunty (9.04) and Karmic Koala (9.10). These older versions currently have Firefox 3.0 and xulrunner 1.9 both of which are no longer supported by Mozilla. |
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Source: H Security - Posted by Alex
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Aza Raskin, Creative Lead for Mozilla's Firefox, has demonstrated a new phishing attack which exploits tabbed browsing. In the attack, a normal page, with the attack script embedded, is loaded and displays as expected. |
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Source: ZDNet Blogs - Posted by Anthony Pell
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Okay, Windows content, but good to convince your boss that even the best efforts of the various security Windows vendors can't protect your desktop users.
Are you a Windows user? Do you make sure that your antivirus program is updated regularly? Do you feel safe? You shouldn’t! Read on to find out why.
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Source: TechRepublic - Posted by Anthony Pell
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I recently read a blog posting that denounced the use of sudo as insecure because of the following (briefly summed up and paraphrased) reasons:
- The idea that not using the root account is wrong, using root for everything is fine.
- That using sudo for everything provides a false sense of security over performing an action as root directly
- That using a user account password to get a root shell is a bad idea
- That using a root shell is not dangerous, and that this “grave misunderstanding” came from the idea that running X as root is dangerous
- That sudo has very little place in the Enterprise
- That relying on sudo is foolish, because it has bugs
- That everything should be done from a root shell, and that you should have to know the “uber-secret root password” to get that access
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