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Tuesday, October 2, 2007
* Protecting users against social engineering tactics
* InfoWorld Daily Podcast
* Web 2.0 brings set of security concerns
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PROTECTING USERS AGAINST SOCIAL ENGINEERING TACTICS
The feature well: To truly understand how vulnerable your company's
network is requires thorough testing. And since people are the weakest
link, employees are not to be overlooked. How to think like a con man
demonstrates ways to use social engineering to test security defenses.
"In our modern, security-centric world, this ancient craft poses an
ever-present danger: Despite technological advances that present an
illusion of security, we are as vulnerable as ever to the con," Andrew
Brandt writes. Naturally, start by doing your research. Related: Hackers
want to hypnotize you. Careers: Finding himself in a culture riddled by
"We can't... ...
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INFOWORLD DAILY PODCAST
BEA dons a new Tuxedo with which it aims to take on mainframes, SAP
releases new components for NetWeaver, Microsoft buys Jellyfish.com, and
more LISTEN!... ...
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WEB 2.0 BRINGS SET OF SECURITY CONCERNS
Security: As companies continue adopting new Web 2.0 technologies
including online collaboration, social networking, file-sharing, a new
report from Forrester Research found that Web 2.0 security concerns
abound. For starters, fewer than 5 percent of companies claim to have
taken any specific measures to protect users of the technologies. What's
more, only one-third of respondents have any manner of data leakage
protection in place. From the Test Center: Pushing itself into the rich
Internet applications space and joining the likes of Adobe Flex, Flash,
OpenLaszlo, Curl and myriad AJAX tools, Microsoft's Silverlight 1.0
would be a good fit for a... ...
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