Archive for October, 2006
Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
Passwords are the Security of Yesterday
The following quote is from a user on Digg.com, speaking in reference to a Reuters’ article on a new study on passwords.
“It figures. Where I work we have at least 9 different programs that require a password. None of the systems interconnect so each one has to be set separately. Most people just set them [...]
No Comments » - Posted in IV General Posts, Security, Technology Planning by Jake Carey-Rand
Monday, October 16th, 2006
Bad batteries = Economics 101
“Sony also appears to be facing widespread claims for compensation from several laptop manufacturers, including Toshiba, Hitachi and Fujitsu, according to reports.” – CNET.com
“A shortage of the batteries, used in electronics ranging from laptops to handheld music players, might dent sales during the year-end shopping season.” – Bloomberg.com
I know I’ve already discussed the bad battery [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in IV General Posts, Recall, Technology Planning by Jake Carey-Rand
Friday, October 13th, 2006
Microsoft and Windows Vista: Limiting your use just a bit more…
Microsoft’s long anticipated release of its next browser is finally coming to fruition around at the turn of the New Year. With it come upgrades in networking, increased multimedia functionality and a couple of other things… nothing which is going to cause you to upgrade from XP until at least the second Service Pack, in [...]
No Comments » - Posted in IV General Posts, Law, Software, Technology Upgrades by Jake Carey-Rand
Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
Addendum to “Web and Application Security”
We must backtrack on our comments about Firefox’s JavaScript flaws from Monday. While the possibility of this happening and the various descriptions made by my Front-End Developer, Gareth, still hold true, apparently it was made up. Below you can view the explanation we’ve heard regarding this “alleged critical hole.”
(Text included below.)
http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/78970
“The allegedly critical hole reported [...]
No Comments » - Posted in IV General Posts, Security, Software by Jake Carey-Rand
Monday, October 2nd, 2006
Web and Application Security brought to light
The following was written by my web designer, Gareth Ballester, in response to an article I found discussing Mozilla’s security problems with it’s ever more popular browser, Firefox. The September 30th article from CNET discusses how a couple of hackers have found some serious JavaScript flaws in Firefox… remember that Firefox is the “secure” browser [...]
