Here is an interesting post from Bruce Schneier. Consumerization and Corporate IT Security September 7, 2010 Consumerization and Corporate IT Security If you’re a typical wired American, you’ve got a bunch of tech tools you like and a bunch more you covet. You have a cell phone that can easily text. You’ve got a laptop [...]
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When looking at the economy over the past couple months there have been some interesting events: Bears Sterns, Fannie and Freddie Mae, Lehman Brothers, AIG; couple the subprime mortgage crisis with the high gas prices and you get a collection of concerned individuals. Because of this, companies and employees are trying to cut costs wherever [...]
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Backing Up To The Future Printer Friendly Version at http://flybynightpublishing.com/PDF/080921BackingUpToTheFuture.pdf When I visited the Physics Department of the University of Buffalo the other day, I got a chance to test their time transport machine prototype. When I, and several other IT professionals, went to the year 2020, this is what we found. · War is [...]
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In a recent note regarding physical database design, I discussed a presentation given by Tom Kyte at a recent meeting of the Upstate New York Oracle User Group. In another of his presentations, Tom discussed SQL Injection. He began by asking how many of the folks present understood SQL Injection and, given a presumably sophisticated [...]
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So recently in the news there is a story about @ 40 million credit cards being hacked. What are the odds that you or I are not in that group! The news is reporting that this is a wireless hack which tends to make you think that they (the hackers) were using tools to break [...]
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I recently read Greg Garlands’ post for finding the perfect storage and certainly agreed that everything he was looking for in there was a legitimate concern. There was one thing missing that I really hadn’t thought of as a home user, but was certainly aware of as a consultant to the SMB (Small business) and [...]
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I can’t help but read about the latest Western New York problem of students hacking into school computers. I can see how this might be a draw to certain types of kids; the challenge of pitting your skills and knowledge against a professional, computer network. What worries me is that the computer skills seem to [...]
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