And the military has farmed out a lot of work on their systems to third-party vendors who can meet the specifications but may not give security as much attention as it requires, ... Security for any public-facing applications is critical. |
As PT Barnum put it, there is a sucker born every minute. I'm glad to see the FBI warning consumers. |
But the fact that there was a security breach is troubling, especially if there are no technical fixes available to protect the system, |
Clearly, the user doesn't benefit from these default settings. |
Enterprises have increased needs to keep their enterprise messaging systems continuously available -- for business continuity purposes, to meet compliance mandates and to support investigations. But companies don't want separate products for email, instant messaging and other protocols -- these just increase costs and make management more complicated. Of the nearly 60 percent of enterprises that have already deployed an instant messaging or email archiving product, one-third are re-evaluating their current solution. |
I am glad H&R Block says that revealing social security numbers is against its policy. The question is what is it going to do about it, and is anyone going to get into trouble for this breach of security. |
I haven't seen a single positive comment about this and it makes them look at little slimy, ... They should have been above-board and should have used software that they hadn't cobbled together themselves. |
I hope H&R Block doesn't do it again. The likelihood of Congress criminalizing disclosure of private information is growing. |
If Microsoft had not combined the two, you would still see the mainstream antivirus vendors all trying to premium-price all these things separately. |
If the worm can embed itself in a user's program, it becomes a widespread problem. |
In the U.S., Americans are terrified of Big Brother. Yet we have no problem allowing lots of Little Brothers, such as the credit card companies, to have our information indefinitely. So now we have thousands of Little Brothers and the Internet giving us hundreds of new ways to track people. |
It's a good idea for Symantec to refresh the Norton product line, which has a strong following among businesses and consumers, |
It's a good idea for Symantec to refresh the Norton product line, which has a strong following among businesses and consumers. |
It's good to see Microsoft helping bring fraudsters like these to justice. |
It's not a question of someone crying wolf. It's just that there are so many wolves, there is a lot of crying going on. It's just one more thing in a never-ending stream of security problems for Windows. |