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CEO’s Advised to Wake Up to Cyberthreats Paul Twomey, chief executive of ICANN and member of the British-North American Committee, advises chief executives of the risks to business from cyber-espionage and how to deal with them...

There are few things in life that I hate more than spam. But I hate receiving one type of message even more: delivery status notifications for spam that was sent to bad email addresses, spoofing my address as the sender. Lately, I’ve been getting a couple hundred of these per day.

C'mon, Gisele - we all have to deal with security when at the airport! Tom Brady's girlfriend looked a little peeved at LAX (en route to Miami) when she had to pass through security checkpoints just like everyone else. We know you're a gorgeous, wealthy supermodel, but that doesn't mean you're superhuman! Is Gisele pretty? She has the body, but I'm not sure about the face...

Lately I have noticed a lot of my blogs and php sites keep getting hacked and when they are loaded they start downloading data from the URL traffurl.ru. If you are having similar problems change all of your passwords, this includes you hosting account password, wordpress login password and FTP access passwords.

This post was on the front-page of Dzone today: Bullet Proof Cookies. It got like 7 up votes when I saw it.  Did anyone actually read the article? This shows a horrible way to use cookies.  Well, maybe not horrible, but at least it is certainly over-kill.

Tomorrow’s radio show with Michael Orshan and guest John Brown should prove to be fascinating. John is currently employed by the Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce as the Manager of Business Development where he develops programs and services for chamber members.

Microsoft addressed remote code execution vulnerabilities in its Jet Database Engine and a flaw in its Malware Protection Engine. Which updates should be deployed first? Jason Miller, the security data team manager, at Shavlik Technologies and Don Leatham, director of solutions and strategy at Lumension Security examine Microsoft’s latest round of critical updates.

This was actually cribbed from a Bruce Schneier blog post about security… Security engineers see the world differently than other engineers. Instead of focusing on how systems work, they focus on how systems fail, how they can be made to fail, and how to prevent–or protect against–those failures.

Java 2 Runtime Environment Standard Edition 5.0 Update 1 May 14th, 2008 Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) software is the premier solution for rapidly developing and deploying mission-critical, enterprise applications.

Avoiding Identity Theft: Critical Steps to Take By Fazila Nurani on May 14, 2008 in Security | comments(0) As on-line and off-line consumers, we are constantly prompted to disclose our personal information to organizations. But with each disclosure comes the risk that one’s information will be mismanaged, accessed without authorization or stolen.