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Tom Olzak on Security
http://olzak.wordpress.com
Security and risk management news and independent research.
- Added on: Mar 6th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Tom Olzak
- Listed in: Computer Security Computers
- Tags: Security risk Management hipaa controls
Recent Posts
Building a Better Mousetrap: Two Factor Passphrases
The password debate never ends. Instead, it seems to be increasing in intensity. The problem is the use of passwords isn’t going away anytime soon. The cost of replacing passwords with a more secure access control method is typically too high...
Protecting core productivity apps with EMET
This week Microsoft released a toolkit designed to help IT professionals protect systems from common threats. Named the Enhanced Mitigation Evaluation Toolkit (EMET), this little gem is easy to implement, once you install the very small executables...
Security Note: New method for detecting forgeries
A new visualization approach to detecting forgeries was presented this summer at EuroVis 2009. Songhua Xu demonstrated how pen angle and pressure provides enough information to determine if a signature, for example, is a forgery. In this image, th...
Interesting Find: Chrome exposes links
Have you ever wanted to see where a link takes you or whether it actually downloads what you expect? If so, you know there are add-ons for FireFox and other browsers that provide this functionality. However, I just noticed this morning while work...
Security Tip: Patching must include ALL applications
Once again, patching isn’t just about plugging holes in Windows. Most if not all applications have security vulnerabilities if someone looks hard enough. Up until now, however, finding those vulnerabilities was harder than just whacking the OS....
For Software Downloads, Go Directly to the Source
Search engine results for download sites offering hard to get or difficult to find popular software are increasingly used by attackers to ply their insidious craft. Users looking for an easy way to circumvent vendor constraints or to find popular f...
