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The frugal CSO
Last month a gave a short presentation on free and low cost security tools to the Ottawa chapter of ISSA.
The slides are now available: The Frugal CSO: IT Security Tools for Tough Times (pdf).
This presentation was to raise awareness of the availability and quality of some of the leading free / open source and low [...]
RFID risks demonstrated at DefCon
I love this story at Wired: Feds at DefCon Alarmed After RFIDs Scanned.
Every BlackHat / DefCon has great demonstrations that jolt people awake. This time a group set up a table with an RFID reader and camera and collected data broadcast by the various cards as people walked by . The demonstration itself is not [...]
Attackers now targeting small business?
At the Visa Security Summit last week there was a panel discussion on “Small Business: The New Target of Data Thieves.”
We do a lot of work helping protect small and mid-sized business (SMBs), and it’s great to see these organizations get attention.
An article over at at Dark Reading covered the Visa discussion well: Small [...]
RAID in Ubuntu Server updated
I’ve just updated Setting up software RAID in Ubuntu Server, one of our most popular articles.
The article was originally written for Ubuntu Server 6.06 and the instructions for making failed RAID drives bootable didn’t always work in recent versions.
The Ubuntu team has made many improvements to the RAID sitution in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) and last [...]
U.S. Energy Department loses nearly 20 laptops a month
Last year we learned that the U.S. Commerce Department was losing an average of 17 laptop laptop computers per month. Now the Energy Department reports 1,415 laptops have vanished between 2001 and 2006, inclusive. That’s 19.6 laptops per month, on average, out of a reported total inventory of 71,874.
The [...]
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