Entries Tagged as ‘Security’

April 27, 2009

Viruses and Plagues

Two things this morning:

Just a reminder to all of you who work with the public computers to wash your hands frequently, cover your cough, don’t come in to work if you have a fever, and don’t touch your face.
The Conficker virus has basically gone live and is enslaving millions of computers as we speak. This [...]

October 10, 2008

The real threat is you

Some time ago I gave the staff here a “brown bag” presentation on the shifting nature of security and how the triple threats of complexity, extensibility, and connectivity meant that threats to data security were going to be around for the foreseeable future.
A simple computer, like a hand held television remote, is easier to write [...]