Greetings, fellow IT professionals!
I have found a couple of articles this week that may cause some concern if you are interested in keeping your home/work/office computers and networks secured. It seems that some of the leading security software manufacturers have failed tests by independent companies. Software security suites such as McAfee, Symantec, and Trend Micro were tested against real-world attacks and failed to provide a proper level of security....READ MORE
In a similar article, Microsoft is releasing 11 security updates today for Windows OS, Office suite, and IE. Microsoft isn't the only one getting ready to update. Adobe is releasing a patch to fix vulnerabilities in Flash - one of which fixes a potential click-jacking vulnerability (see previous blog) Get ready to start updating your software, folks!
That's all for this edition
Dr. G.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Blog Post - October 2, 2008
Greetings, all...
I'm starting this blog as a way to contact all of my students, current and past, on topics of interest concerning Information Technology. Currently, I am teaching classes in Network Security, Cyber Security, and IT Training and Development. For the time being, this blog will concentrate on those areas.
Why am I doing this?
Often I have come across articles from one of the myriad of websites, RSS feeds, trade mags, etc. and have often thought those articles would be of interest to one class or the other - or previous students, faculty, etc.
So here we are - this is a way for us to communicate as an IT community on topics that interest - well, primarily me - but hopefully you too.
This blog will evolve as time goes on, but I want to start something now, so here is the first article that I found to be relative, especially to the Cyber Security class.
There is a browser vulnerability called "Click Jacking". Basically what happens is that if you go to a "bad" website the site will take control of every link you click in your browser, forcing you to go to their websites. Pretty scary stuff - this emphasizes the thought that you need to really be careful of what you click on and where you go on the web. Here is another link with FAQs on Click Jacking.
That's all for this inaugural post
Dr. G
I'm starting this blog as a way to contact all of my students, current and past, on topics of interest concerning Information Technology. Currently, I am teaching classes in Network Security, Cyber Security, and IT Training and Development. For the time being, this blog will concentrate on those areas.
Why am I doing this?
Often I have come across articles from one of the myriad of websites, RSS feeds, trade mags, etc. and have often thought those articles would be of interest to one class or the other - or previous students, faculty, etc.
So here we are - this is a way for us to communicate as an IT community on topics that interest - well, primarily me - but hopefully you too.
This blog will evolve as time goes on, but I want to start something now, so here is the first article that I found to be relative, especially to the Cyber Security class.
There is a browser vulnerability called "Click Jacking". Basically what happens is that if you go to a "bad" website the site will take control of every link you click in your browser, forcing you to go to their websites. Pretty scary stuff - this emphasizes the thought that you need to really be careful of what you click on and where you go on the web. Here is another link with FAQs on Click Jacking.
That's all for this inaugural post
Dr. G
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