Security

Mon, November 23, 2009 - Investigations manager Brandon Gregg explains how to collect evidence for network investigations on the cheap without damaging the mission at hand.

Fri, November 20, 2009 - Google's Chrome OS captured a lot of headlines and hype this week after the company invited the media in to have a look-see, setting off a whole lot of opinions about whether it will be any good. Microsoft, predictably, doesn't think so. Otherwise, Al Gore offered his opinion on the role supercomputers can play to quell climate change, and for the first time we can recollect there were not one, but two, cat-related IT stories that caught our attention.

Tue, November 17, 2009 - In the second installment of his series on "Clearing the Cloud," security expert Ariel Silverstone proposes some clearer definitions and metrics to improve cloud security.

Thu, November 12, 2009 - The sky isn't falling, but this is something we need to keep an eye on, says security consultant Kenneth Van Wyk.

Wed, November 11, 2009 - Security luminaries Anton Chuvakin and Ben Rothke explain why 451 Group analyst Josh Corman is off his rocker when he compares PCI security to a devil and "No Child Left Behind."

Wed, November 11, 2009 - In just four days, not one but two worms targeting the iPhone have emerged. Both of the worms target the same vulnerability, a default password in the SSH server that is installed on jail-broken iPhones. While one worm is a mostly a nuisance, the second siphons personal information from the iPhone, which makes it a serious identity theft threat.

Wed, November 11, 2009 - Android 2.0 and the first device to use the mobile operating system, Droid, have a certain coolness factor, but that's not what corporate IT is looking for.

Mon, November 02, 2009 - The insider threat, the bane of computer security and a topic of worried conversation among CSOs, is undergoing significant change. Today's insider threats may have something much less insidious in mind--multitasking and social networking to get their jobs done.

Mon, November 02, 2009 - It's scary to think how much sensitive or even valuable information can be gleaned from an untended PC, even one whose user just walked away for a few minutes. That's the sort of thing that security managers fret about but the rest of the world hardly notices.

Fri, October 30, 2009 - The world got another smartphone this week with Motorola's Droid, available from Verizon. Google rolled out Android 2.0 as well. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers finally voted to allow non-Latin characters in domain names, and Windows 7 news continued apace, among other things. So read on and Happy Halloween everyone (see number 10).