Security

Who is looking at who?

by Robby Pedrica 6 July 2012 Commentary

Analysis of website usage is a huge part of understanding how to improve websites, how to give visitors a better surfing experience and how to maximise the time a visitor spends on a site ( potentially purchasing items while they are there ). SEO, or search engine optimisation, goes hand in hand with site analysis [...]

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Tagged as: Applications, Commentary, Cybercrime, internet

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Survey on Cybercrime and Security

by Marlon Duminy 28 June 2012 Anouncements

The University of Cape Town`s Information Systems (IS) department is conducting SA`s third Survey on Cybercrime and Security. The aim of the research is to evaluate SA`s current cybercrime landscape in comparison with the results of the first survey that was conducted in 2008 and the latest CSI survey conducted in the US. Furthermore, the [...]

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Tagged as: Cybercrime, Security, Survey

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Are the clouds gone yet?

by Robby Pedrica 10 September 2011 Cloud

It seems that Microsoft ( and others ) is intent on validating my cynical view of clouds. The latest Microsoft outage ( last night and this morning again ) was caused by what the company vaguely called a “DNS issue” and affected not just Office 365 but also the consumer services Hotmail and SkyDrive. The [...]

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Tagged as: Cloud, internet, virtualization

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CA’s hacked

by Robby Pedrica 7 September 2011 Security

Wow, it really has been a bad week for Certificate Authorities. First DigiNotar gets cracked by a seemingly insistent CA cracker called ComodoHacker; now GlobalSign has stopped processing certificate requests due to possible compromise by the same cracker. It all started in March this year with the Comodo CA breach. Next was StartCom the Israeli [...]

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Tagged as: internet, Security

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The Cloud, Security and IT skills

by Robby Pedrica 6 September 2011 Applications

Seeing as everyone is writing about Cloud Computing lately, I thought I’d rehash some of my concerns about this ‘new’  technology. New in parenthesis because the idea is actually quite old, coming from the time-sharing Unix systems of the 60′s and 70′s. Cloud obviously takes this to a new level ( supposedly with non-stop availability [...]

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Tagged as: Cloud, Security, virtualization

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Sony’s PSN hacked

by Robby Pedrica 27 April 2011 Cloud

As you may have gauged from other posts, Sony has never been a favourite of mine. Their recent activity in suing George Hotz for hacking the Playstation  3 ( after they removed the OtherOS function ) means I’m even less enamoured with them. But the final nail may have just been struck: the Playstation Network [...]

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The BalanceNG Software Load Balancer

by Robby Pedrica 9 February 2011 Security

Seeing as Nic brought up the subject of LBs, I thought I would chime in with the BalanceNG product which is not currently certified for Exchange or any other MS products. However seeing as it’s probably one of the best LBs I’ve ever used ( and that includes Alteon and Zeus ZXTM ), it merits [...]

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Win 7 SP1 out soon

by Robby Pedrica 13 January 2011 Security

Windows 7 Service Pack 1 should be available soon and won’t have much new functionality, but will have the usual hot fixes and patches. 3 items that will make an appearance are: Advanced Vector Extensions ( AVX ) which will be available in forthcoming processors RemoteFX – an extension to RDP Dynamic Memory – intelligent [...]

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Security Policies in the organisation

by Robby Pedrica 12 January 2011 Documentation

Most organisations of a reasonable size, will today have at least some policies which integrate with HR to govern Internet and computer use within the company. However, the ability of these limited documents ( and sometimes procedures ) to protect the company is often minimal. With the extent to which malicious vectors are able to [...]

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Tagged as: internet, Security

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New Microsoft Windows LNK exploit the most dangerous of all

by Robby Pedrica 21 July 2010 Security

A new malicious attack has been spreading through the internet in the last few weeks, initially using USB memory sticks to propagate. Called, the LNK vulnerability, the attack uses specially crafted shortcut (.lnk) files, which trick Windows into running code of an attacker’s choosing. Any Windows application that tries to display the shortcut’s icon—including Explorer—will [...]

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Tagged as: Microsoft, Security, virus

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