Lists O’ IT Goodness
DaleIs something I refer to every other day. The list has articles which has lists of things like Print Screen utilities, File Recovery tools, and the item I referred to,…
Resistant to good advice.
However our users are highly resistant to good advice. - NT Government IT Security Manager, 2003. Which was in response to some advice I provided about the JDBGMGR.EXE Virus email…
Imagine this … you’re an IT Security Manager …
Imagine this ... You're an IT Security Manager for a large company. You organise an audit of IT Security. The external auditors identify many issues*, and you ask a support…
IT Security audits
It's in the interest of external security auditors to find as many flaws as possible. They have to justify themselves somehow, after all. So this leads to the farcical solution…
How to remember that password on a test system
I have dozens of Virtual PC/VMware images, and can never remember the password for the things. A cleverer guy than me (Tony Cinanni) suggested this solution: Set a “Password Hint”. …
“I am the information warrior who …”
… I am the information warrior who adopts mixed defence strategies to combat the baddies. … so spoke the IT Security manager, who back in 2008, described Script Kiddies as…
“Key security questions that every executive should be able to answer”
Saw this back in 2003, and you can find the original here: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=80765 By Eric Cole To make sure you understand your organization's issues, you should be asking the following…
3 free, and 14 non-free, hard disk wiping programs.
This is an update on my “Wiping your hard disk, so other people can’t get data off it post”, which WordPress and Windows Live writer just erased on me. Ironic!…
Email file extensions I recommend blocking in email
*.bat, *.cmd, *.com, *.cpl, *.exe, *.hta, *.msi, *.pif, *.scr, *.shs, *.vbs, *.wav, *.vba, *.job, *.pcx
Back in the day – preventing Spyware
I devised a method to prevent Spyware (and Webshots) from loading, using the Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit Shim Application Database (sdbinst.db) It worked well: most people didn’t ring…