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Monthly Archives: December 2009
H1N1 and Snowstorms – Training for Teleworkers
In a blog posting entitled “H1N1 and telework,” Akamai’s Senior Director of Information Security and Chief Security Architect, Andy Ellis, writes that: [H1N1] affects us in the workplace. If an employee has a small child and they don’t have a … Continue reading
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Security Problems with Acrobat and PDF Files
PDF documents are no longer the security panacea we thought they were. And security awareness training needs to catch up with this. For years, IT and security professionals have been advising people to distribute documents in PDF format rather than … Continue reading
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Social Engineering Using Facebook
Banning social network use DOESN’T prevent it being used for social engineering attacks. An excellent article in Dark Reading describes how a security consulting company carried out an (authorized) social engineering attack on a client using information gleaned from Facebook. … Continue reading
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URL Shortening as a Security Threat?
Most of us are familiar with URL shortening websites such as bit.ly, tinyurl.com, and is.gd. It’s one of the technologies that’s fuelling the explosive growth of social networks such as Twitter – after all, 140 characters isn’t a lot of … Continue reading
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