On the second Tuesday of every month Microsoft releases a series of system and security updates, thus the 2nd Tuesday of the month is referred to “Patch Tuesday” in the IT world. Next Tuesday is particularly note worthy. See the article from Network World.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/060310-microsoft-plans-gigantic-patch-tuesday.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_am_2010-06-04
As a best practice we recommend that you periodically review the privacy settings on your Facebook account. Facebook originally had a decent policy and approach to privacy, but over time Facebook has changed these policies sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worst. We typically find out about this stuff pretty quickly, but as a best practice we recommend that people review the privacy settings of their Facebook accounts on a periodic basis. In particular we suggest a reviewing any applications installed on your Facebook account. Remove any unused or unknown applications and check what actions those applications are allowed to do.
We are not big fans of Network Solutions for many reasons and here is yet another reason. Read the full article on the Network World site.
The Macintosh OS has long be a safe haven from viruses and malware, but eventually this security by obscurity would have to end. Right now it is not all bad news the malware has not been reported in the wild…however it is only a matter of time. Read more in the article from Network World. Read the full article on the Network World website.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/022310-ftc-warns-nearly-100-firms.html
If you think that letting your staff run peer-to-peer software does not endanger your company…think again.
Recently came across this interesting set of statistics from the Cisco 2009 Annual Security Report.
Where Malicious Software Hides:
This video explains how Google uses your previous searches to optimize your Google searches. It also explains how to opt-out of this search history.