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Security Now Podcasts

Leo Laporte has always had a knack for translating tech-speak for the masses, and Steve Gibson does a great job of breaking complex security issues into bite-size pieces that make them easier to grasp. Every week, these guys spend 20-30 minutes discussing important issues of personal computer security...

Posted to Mike Koch at myITforum.com (Weblog) by mkoch on 10-07-2005
Filed under: Commentary, Technology, Security
Safari isn't the only thing Apple updated...

Apple today released APPLE-SA-2008-03-18 Security Update 2008-002, the second security update for the year. Most significant updates include to Apache, ClamAV, Emacs, OpenSSH, PHP , and X11. Security Update 2008-002 may be obtained from the Software Update pane in System Preferences, or Apple's Software...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 03-18-2008
Filed under: Security, Technology
Apple's OS hacked in just 2 minutes

Softpedia is reporting that Apple's OS was hacked...pretty quick...due to a challenge. At 12:38pm local time, the team of Charlie Miller, Jake Honoroff, and Mark Daniel from Independent Security Evaluators have successfully compromised the Apple MacBook Air, winning the laptop and $10,000 from TippingPoint's...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 03-28-2008
Filed under: Security, News, Technology
Vista hacked after third day through Adobe flash

It took three days, but Windows Vista was hacked as well. I blogged earlier that the Mac OS fell the fastest, and now Vista has fallen, through of all things a hole in Adobe flash. Maybe I should take everything Adobe off my computer. Reading through...it looks like the judges relaxed the criteria to...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 03-30-2008
Filed under: Microsoft, Security, Technology
Sandisk warns of USB flash drives

SanDisk has warned that IT managers are unaware of the extent to which unsecured flash drives are being brought into their organizations, backing this with a new study of corporate end-users and IT executives. The study found that 77 percent corporate end-users surveyed have admitted to using personal...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 04-13-2008
Filed under: Security, Technology
Free Proofpoint Report on Outbound Email Security and Data Loss Prevention

How concerned are companies about the content of email leaving their organizations? And how do companies manage the legal and financial risks associated with outbound email? To find out, Proofpoint and Forrester Consulting (a division of leading analyst firm Forrester) conducted an online survey of technology...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 06-01-2008
Filed under: Miscellaneous, Security, Technology
Apple patches 40 different security holes?

Good grief... Apple on Wednesday released an update to fix at least 40 different security holes in computers powered by its Mac OS X operating system and other software, including a just-in-time update to fix a dangerous vulnerability in the Adobe Flash Player that is being rather heavily exploited at...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 06-01-2008
Filed under: Security, Technology
Adobe pulls a fast one…

What a way to have immediate deployment of a new product…don’t patch your old products to fix a vulnerability, release a new one… Security Bulletin for Flash Player and Security Advisory for Flash Professional CS3 The big news today is that CS4 has launched, along with Flash Player 10 . We have released...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 10-15-2008
Filed under: Security, Technology
Adobe pulls a fast one…

What a way to have immediate deployment of a new product…don’t patch your old products to fix a vulnerability, release a new one… Security Bulletin for Flash Player and Security Advisory for Flash Professional CS3 The big news today is that CS4 has launched, along with Flash Player 10 . We have released...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 10-15-2008
Filed under: Security, Technology
Apple patches 40 different security holes?

Good grief... Apple on Wednesday released an update to fix at least 40 different security holes in computers powered by its Mac OS X operating system and other software, including a just-in-time update to fix a dangerous vulnerability in the Adobe Flash Player that is being rather heavily exploited at...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 06-01-2008
Filed under: Security, Technology

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