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21 May 2008Don’t do this to yourself (and your company) in online meetings
Here's another thought in the same spirit as my previous post where I talked about sharing out your desktop when using WebEx, GotoMeeting, and the like and then doing stuff that other people probably shouldn't see.I just attended a very unprofessional webcast put on by an otherwise respectable security vendor where a person on their end didn't have her phone muted. I could hear everything she was saying, part of ...
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28 Apr 2008
ISP with no business continuity plan?
A couple of weeks ago, my home Internet service provider, SpeedFactory, went kaput. What used to be an awesome small ISP with good prices and tons of flexibility had let me down.I had no DSL, no email, nothing worked from home. Topping off the problem, no one was available to call...Their phone lines (even the fax) were inaccessible. Several days later, they amazingly re-surfaced and apologized for the outage. They ...
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16 Jan 2008
Lax IRS security – yet another reason for the FairTax!
Apparently a GAO report this week outlines how taxpayer data is at “increased risk of unauthorized disclosure, modification or destruction.” within the IRS: https://web.archive.org/web/20090401053638/http://www.scmagazineus.com/GAO-Lax-IRS-cybersecurity-puts-taxpayer-data-in-danger/article/104008/ Yet another reason to get rid of the IRS! :)...
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11 Jan 2008
Be careful when checking for domain name availability!
Although I'm (currently) a customer of Network Solutions for a few of my Internet domain registrations, I've never been a big fan. Too much cockiness and too much money for registering domain names. Well, they've finally stepped over the line and are apparently doing something that I've often wondered was taking place with domain name registrations.According to this NewsFactor article, Network Solutions is monitoring domain names that people are searching ...
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His final report was very thorough and included security recommendations for our network environment. The executive leadership was so impressed with Kevin’s security expertise, they have extended their agreement to continue to perform periodic testing. We highly recommend Kevin Beaver and Principle Logic as a resource for network security testing.”
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