I just got notice of a vulnerability in Firefox from Wordfence. I have no original information, but I have generallly found that the Wordfence people provie good information. I will post a comment here (an a note at the top of this post) when this vulnerability has been fixed.
The one way to avoid the problem until it is fixed (the Mozilla people are good too and will doubtless get it done quickly), is to avoid using Firefox until they have completed their work.
I was reading this article from TechRepublic today and at first I thought it had little to do with me, because I manage such small networks. But it wasn’t many paragraphs until it was ringing too true to me to ignore. It matches my experience. Now the largest network I manage has 12 pieces of…
In a number of webinars I’ve attended this year on information security, I have been alerted to the changes AI is making to email scams. Background Email is the most effect tool for attack that hackers have, because if an email looks like it is from a particular company or from someone known to the…
SmartPlanet has a list of the 25 worst passwords of 2011. It’s good to read the comments as well. Computer people tend to make the error of thinking that any password that’s hard to guess is good, and the harder the better. But the fact is that people tend to write down passwords that are…
Spoof emails can be convincing if they contain the right information. Further, how do you know whether you have actually been hacked? Here are some tips.
Wordfence Lists Top Security Analysis Tools, and it is generally worthwhile to read their material.
I had read about this a couple of times, but since the defense is the same as for previous versions, I hadn’t yet written about it. I’ve now had a call in which I had to deal with it. For some time, scam emails have been informing you that some amount of money had been…
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