For or Against Internet Explorer?
I read a brilliant post on ZDnet today by Ed Bott about the recent exploit of Adobe, Google and other companies. A lot of media channels have tabled this exploit as reason to abandon Internet Explorer and, while there is an inherent trust issue with Internet Explorer (which is explained in depth in the report and summarised below), the fear induced by other media reports should be taken with a pinch of salt - if you adopt good security practice if you are using IE (or any browser or operating system for that matter), you will be as safe as you can be.
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When the Clouds break; Risks in the Public Cloud
There is a lot of hype as well as valid discussion about the benefits of Cloud Computing. And while we hope that the faith we put in this elastic environment to scale and provide the flexibility we need to ensure our web applications are always running and performing at optimal levels for all our visitors, there will be times when things don't go as planned.
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Another missing file
1.5 billion searches take place on P2P (peer to peer) networks daily compared with 180 million on Google, and that a growing number of the searches are being done for malicious purposes. There is an abundance of classified government and military documents as well as corporate data freely available on P2P networks, including a full diagram of the Pentagon's secret backbone network infrastructure. But how do we mitigate against confidential data loss from P2P networks?
Read MoreFlash Flaw could lead to Phishing Flood
An article published today on The Register says that a security vulnerability has been discovered in one of the Web's most widely distributed third-party applications: Flash. The vulnerability allows hackers to exploit Internet users and phish private information from them. Is there a fix? Not yet, but it will require coordination on multiple fronts to achieve.
Read MoreBotNets, or when P2P goes bad
As with all technologies, there is a darker side. And the dark side of P2P (peer to peer) is the botnet. The programs are covertly installed onto the target PC but they can leverage the power of an entire network of other versions of the program installed on many, many other PCs (unlike traditional virus programs). And botnet creators are beginning to collaborate ...
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