Have you left port 445 open?
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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Having spent 15 years or so immersed in the world of IT security from both sides of the hacking fence, you might think that nothing would surprise me. You would be wrong. The truth is that I am constantly surprised, as are most of my security peers, by the ingenuity of the attacker, the stupidity of the victim and perhaps most of all the indifference of the developer.
The biggest surprise to hit me this month, however, came from the perhaps predictable Microsoft quarter. Well, OK, that
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Who is watching you work?
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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The availability, cost and relative simplicity of IP surveillance cameras has opened up the world of CCTV to a much wider audience. Unfortunately for British businesses, that audience includes anyone with access to Google. Alanis Morrisette, should she re-record her classic
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The true cost of click-fraud
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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YouTube might not seem like an obvious site to be talking about in a business publication such as IT Pro, what with it being best known for a mixture of dodgy home videos and clips with dubious copyright clearance. Yet there is no ignoring the fact that YouTube has become a phenomenon in less than a couple of years. Many have drawn comparisons to Google, founded by two young men with a technical and cultural vision, in their garage and taking the web by storm. I would argue that the comparisons do not end there, no doubt its founders will go on to achieve great personal wealth but I
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State of Spyware report reveals cause for concern in the enterprise
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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I was fortunate enough to get a pre-release copy of the latest Webroot
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That Titanic moment: avoiding the security iceberg
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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As someone with more than a passing interest in IT security, the last three months have been thoroughly depressing to say the least. Not a week seems to have gone by without a major company, of a size that ought to know better, being involved in a, frankly, outrageous display of security silliness. The fact that they tend to be involved in the kind of market sector where security is absolutely vital to brand reputation and customer trust only compounds the madness of the mistakes made.
Perhaps nowhere is this truer than the case of HSBC, which found itself on the front pages of the national newspapers and headlining television news bulletins following the discovery by Cardiff University researchers that it
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Please hack Vista, says Microsoft
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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I had to laugh when Andrew Cushman, director of
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Driven to destruction
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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Dr Andy Jones, Head of Security Technology Research at BT, has announced the results of a joint research project with the University of Glamorgan in Wales and Edith Cowan University in Australia, which asked the question
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Black Hats and BlackBerries
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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I wouldn
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