Keeping security up...
January 29th 2007 08:55
Some of the joyful things we can look forward to in this New Year.
Zombies: no, not the horror movie kind, but a name for computers that have had their security breached, and then are remotely controlled in order to distribute spam. Keep your security measures up!
Watch out for data leakage. Many companies focus on stopping the enemy coming in, but forget that walls can be breached in two directions. Sensitive material, copyrighted programmes, protected information and intellectual property can all fall victim to data leakage. Find out how to avoid this!
Image spam: innocent-looking pictures turn up in your email; there seems to be nothing else harmful in the email, so it must be okay. Except that the image itself is harbouring a virus. Keep on thinking carefully about what you open!
Email-based worms haven't gone away. They may specifically target multimedia files, and applications. Make sure you've got all your security in place...and functioning.
Just a word about security, however. I recently bought a copy of Macafee and downloaded it, because I'd used Macafee elsewhere and it seemed to work well. Unfortunately, they've added a Phishing section to it, and as soon as I tried to work on the Net, every webpage took the Web equivalent of an eternity to load. Some wouldn't load at all. It took a call - to India, by the sound of it - to figure out what was causing the problem.
And the latest Internet Explorer also has some quirks I could do without: trying to add links to Orble has begun to be a problem, taking about three different clicks to work, instead of one as in the past. Ah, progress, thy name is sometimes Mud.
Zombies: no, not the horror movie kind, but a name for computers that have had their security breached, and then are remotely controlled in order to distribute spam. Keep your security measures up!
Watch out for data leakage. Many companies focus on stopping the enemy coming in, but forget that walls can be breached in two directions. Sensitive material, copyrighted programmes, protected information and intellectual property can all fall victim to data leakage. Find out how to avoid this!
Image spam: innocent-looking pictures turn up in your email; there seems to be nothing else harmful in the email, so it must be okay. Except that the image itself is harbouring a virus. Keep on thinking carefully about what you open!
Email-based worms haven't gone away. They may specifically target multimedia files, and applications. Make sure you've got all your security in place...and functioning.
Just a word about security, however. I recently bought a copy of Macafee and downloaded it, because I'd used Macafee elsewhere and it seemed to work well. Unfortunately, they've added a Phishing section to it, and as soon as I tried to work on the Net, every webpage took the Web equivalent of an eternity to load. Some wouldn't load at all. It took a call - to India, by the sound of it - to figure out what was causing the problem.
And the latest Internet Explorer also has some quirks I could do without: trying to add links to Orble has begun to be a problem, taking about three different clicks to work, instead of one as in the past. Ah, progress, thy name is sometimes Mud.
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