The State of Information Security Sucks
The sheer volume of potential targets coupled with the vast amounts of money to be made has captured the attention of the global criminal hacking community.
Enterprise networks are becoming hardened and they are still vulnerable. Some are being penetrated directly while others are accessed through 3rd parities such as their clients or end users. Unprotected [...]
Navy Vice Admiral Discusses The Use of Approved Secure Removable Storage Devices at the Department of Defense
In November 2008, the US Department of Defense banned the use of USB flash drives and other removable medial on all Defense Department networks, after a DoD network was infected by a USB flash drive that had an autorun malware on it.
Today, Navy Vice Admiral Carl Mauney, deputy commander of the United States Strategic Command [...]
Should We Ban Anonymity On The Internet: Schneier vs Ranum
Bruce Schneier and Marcus Ranum had an interesting debate this week regarding anonymity on the Internet. Bruce ascertains that anonymity will always be there (and I agree that the TOR project basically proves it), whereas Marcus argues that limited anonymity for whistle blowers is good, but should eventually be compromised.
What do you think?
Does Closing My Credit Card Hurt Me? (Read Situation)?
Im an 18 year old college student who has had a credit card for 8 months. I charge a few things every month and have paid it on time every month with no problems. I recently found a credit card that goes through Speedway that racks up rewards based alot on how much [...]
What sort of credit card is right for me? My details inside?
Ok, so I’m 18, out of school, and currently working a job to help ease the money my parents have to spend on me for college. I want to get a credit card but only because there are some things you just can’t buy via money order or cash, aka online buying. I’m [...]