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21 Jan 2013Student information systems rife with security flaws
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 ...
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08 Nov 2011
Mobile devices are the new desktop, what to do now!?
Here are some new pieces I've written for my friends at TechTarget on mobile security that you may be interested in including a piece for TechTarget's new (I think) SearchConsumerization.com site:It's time we shift our thinking about endpoint protectionAct now to prevent smartphone security risks at your organizationCompliance officers' next big headache: Securing mobile applicationsYou know the deal, be sure to check out www.principlelogic.com/resources.html for links to all of my ...
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16 Sep 2009
Third-party apps still a big security issue
A while back I wrote about the importance of patching third-party software on your enterprise desktops. Apparently third-party applications are still out of the security loop. It's a seemingly small problem but it can have pretty big consequences....
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