The Symantec threatcon is a measurement of the global threat exposure, delivered as part of Symantec DeepSight Threat Management System (as defined on their website). I added a small PHP hack which grab the current status. Check on the right frame –>
How to define effective security policies?
Security policies are mandatory in all organizations. Your users must known what they can or can’t do, when and how. They must describe how security incidents are handled. Security policies can also be used in case of litigation and must avoid all ambiguity! I found a nice white-paper about this
Total USB Security
Regarding my previous post about USB security, here is the best solution for system administrators to solve this problem: Seen on www.usbglue.com 😉
Take care of untrusted USB keys!
In terms of security, companies accomplished a lot of work to protect them against external attacks. Good! Now, it’s time to have a look at the internal security. Do you have a strong security policy regarding mobile devices? Do you allow external hardware to be used? A good example is
Google Announced a Belgian Office
Google announced their plan to start activity near Mons. That’s a really good news for a region poor in such initiative. On their website, they already posted some job opportunities. BTW, they posted them in Dutch… Do they know that Mons is located in the French part of Belgium? 😉
XP Automatic Update Nagging
How to tune the Windows Automatic Updates service to not bother you again and again every 10 minutes! Great! See here!
Give me the websites you visit, I’ll tell you who you are!
Read on ./: Xerox deposed a new patent: A technic to grab your age, sex, location and even your income based on the web pages you visit! Read the story.
Massive stolen eBay accounts?
Last Thursday, I created an eBay auction to sell my old PDA. Friday, the object was sold! Yepppie! But the buyer had an evaluation level of -1! It was also specified in the auction details that the delivery was only for Europe. The buyer was in the United States?!? I
April 1st jokes
As usual, the 1st of April held its promises: CAU-2007-0001: Window Transparency Information Disclosure Cisco IP Phone Denial of Service Maria Sharapova is a Cisco Certified Specialist Google TIsP
GPS & Portable DVD player incompatibility?
Really no idea why but… when I use my portable DVD player in my car, my GPS cannot find satellites anymore!?! Grmbl! Is it the player itself? the small 17″ screens?