Posted on May 10th, 2010 by admin
The University of California, Davis has stopped using Gmail for its 30,000-member staff and faculty body. The university was trying Gmail for faculty and staff with plans to roll out service to the entire campus. But school officials say the e-mail system isn’t secure or private enough to meet their standards.
CIO Peter Siegel, Academic Senate IT [...]
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Posted on February 10th, 2010 by admin
Any public WiFi networks such as those in kopitiam, McD, Starbuck etc present a bigger security threat than ever to computer users because attackers can intercede over wireless to “poison” users’ browser caches in order to present fake Web pages or even steal data at a later time. We in ITD have tested hacking tool known as [...]
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Posted on January 26th, 2010 by admin
Here’s a look at 10 common smartphone security risks that users should know.
1. No configuration management plan.
Tip: Responsibility for managing smartphones should be given to the same staffers who provision and manage PCs.
2. No power-on password, or a weak password policy.
Tip: Several vendors’ device management consoles allow you to configure password complexity rules and password [...]
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Posted on January 20th, 2010 by admin
In a statement issued last 4 days (January 16, 2010), the German Federal Office for Security in Information Technology (known as BSI) recommends that all Internet Explorer users switch to an alternative browser. They may resume using Explorer after a fix is issued by Microsoft for a critical vulnerability that has been implicated in the Chinese cyberattack against [...]
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