Security Now Blog: Addressing Today's Information Security Issues

Black Hat 2008: Information Security Warnings to Consider

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

This gathering of information security experts revealed issues that will impact us all. IT personnel must stay on top of them in the years ahead to secure their organization’s information assets. (more…)

With ActiveX Conveniences Come Security Risks

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Search the national vulnerability database (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm) for medium and high severity vulnerabilities involving “ActiveX”. You would find dozens of examples in 2008 alone that could enable a hacker to “own” one or more endpoints in your organization. Hackers can use these to steal information from your PCs, infect others, and steal data from whatever servers those PCs interact with. Good news: you can do something about it!
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