Tom D'Auria invited me back to talk more computer security on his IMI TechTalk radio show. I appeared on the show in November of 2006 to promote my book, Essential Computer Security . We did not get to cover all of our questions in the time allotted, so I will be back on the show on Sunday, February...
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According to a study compiled by the Washington Post's Brian Krebs , Internet Explorer 6 was vulnerable for 284 out of 365 days in 2006. That amounts to over 77% of the year. What does that mean? It means the for 3/4 of the year there were known vulnerabilities affecting Internet Explorer 6 for which...
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Companies understand the importance of data. Hardware and software can be replaced, but lost data can't. Those companies that don't truly understand the value of consistently backing up critical data are probably mandated to do so anyway by one of the various regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes...