In reading one of Brian Tracy's books, Brian discusses a story of Albert Einstein and an exam he gave to his graduate physics class at Princeton University. After the exam, Dr. Einstein was approached by a student who asked: "Dr. Einstein, wasn't that the same exam that you gave to this physics class last year?" Dr. Einstein replied "Yes, it was the same exam as last year." The student then ...
Continue Reading...Here's an interesting story from Slashdot today about a college student being expelled after pointing out flaws in his college's student information system.What he's seeing is no surprise. Starting with my days working for IBM's EduQuest division, for the past 20 years or so I've seen numerous K-12 and higher education student information systems chock full of security flaws. Stupid, silly security flaws like SQL injection, cross-site request forgery, URL ...
Continue Reading..."Oh yeah, I forgot about all of those files." I've never had a security tool lead to these predictable words regarding sensitive files being stored on unencrypted laptops as much as Identity Finder has. You may have seen Identity Finder in my previous post and related articles and presentations where I've mentioned or demonstrated it. Identity Finder is a commercial product that IT and information security professionals can use to ...
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