Protect against external threats (InfoWorld)
Protect against external threats (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - In a previous column, I revealed how the vast majority of computer security threats facing your environment live on the client side and require end-user involvement. Users have to be socially engineered to click an item on their desktop (an e-mail, a file attachment, a URL, or an application) that they should not have. This is not to say that truly remote exploits aren’t a threat. They are.
Samy worm creator hopes to be online again (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - If Samy Kamkar plays his cards right, he may be allowed to visit MySpace again in just a few months. For the time being, however, he’s not even allowed to touch a computer, following a January 2007 guilty plea for creating what many consider to be the first Web 2.0 worm: the Samy worm.