Whenever you hand over your sensitive daily tasks–such as email, word, spreadsheets–to an online provider, you’ll always have that nagging doubt about security.
Google’s Security Guy
CNet got to talk to Google vice president of engineering, Douglas Merill, employee at the company since 2003.
PayPal Introduces Security Key
PayPal has introduced the PayPal Security Key for its customers at the eBay Live Conference in Boston.
Web 2.0 Information Security Booming
Information Security is booming, it is a large business, with software and technology that can be bought off the shelf and slapped onto a network. Policies, procedures, documented steps for everyone from service desk through to management responses to incidents are fairly well established. We have ISO standards from ISO 17799 and 24001; we have rules like HIPAA, SOX, and GLB.
Web 2.0 and Information Security
All it takes is one personAs we move the common denominator down to make web2.0 appealing, we run the risks of more social engineering attacks. There is so much technology out there, that trying to figure out how all of it works, and how all of it can be made to work safely is an entire industry vertical for information security.
Security Event Manager Review
Over the last few months I have been fortunate to beta test, or test a number of information security tools to see how well they would work in a high volume environment.
Good Information Security Resources
The month of Apple Bugs is just about over with, and the Month of Kernel bugs is over with, but still the zero day tracker keeps on plugging along and giving out some interesting information that is of a lot of use.
EBay Focuses On Security
Because of online scammers, executives at eBay are shifting their focus to security in hopes to improve buyer and seller experience as well as protect the company’s reputation.
Google and Growing Security Risks
A couple of security vulnerabilities with Google lately illustrated how serious HTML injection, cross-site scripting and cookie theft can be… when the cookie is the Google cookie. This got some of us thinking.
Information Security – A People Problem
Interesting article out on outlaw about how information security is a people problem, which is something that we all probably really do know, even if we won’t really admit it all the time.