Posted on Mar 25th, 2009
A USA Today headline today proclaimed that leaving PCs on overnight costs companies $2.8B a year. U.S. organizations squander $2.8 billion a year to power unused machines, emitting about 20 million tons of carbon dioxide — roughly the equivalent of 4 million cars — according to the 2009 PC Energy Report, produced by 1E, an [...]
Posted on Mar 13th, 2009
Adobe finally released a patch for the major vulnerability that was reported to them back in January. Well, sort of. They released a new version of Acrobat and Adobe Reader (version 9.1) which has the vulnerability fixed. They haven’t yet released a real patch for the majority of Acrobat users — those running 7.0 and [...]
Posted on Mar 10th, 2009
Susan Bradley tipped me off to a new feature on Microsoft Technet: Three Microsoft guys got together over a few beers and decided to create a monthly podcast to address the bulletins released on Microsoft’s “patch tuesdays.” The podcast addresses bulletins in plain language and brings together summaries as well as basic impact and mitigation [...]
Posted on Mar 5th, 2009
There is a fine line between security and usability. Password expiration policies are perhaps the epitome of this line. Password expiration policies are intended to reduce the lifespan of a compromised password. That is, if a users email password is compromised, the attacker can’t secretly read the user’s email indefinitely. There is certainly validity to [...]