Monday | 6 July, 2009
Stories about: Critical Systems
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Most Oracle database shops don't mandate security patch use 02/03/2009 08:32:00
A continuing lack of corporate mandates to quickly install Oracle's security patches may be leaving many Oracle database installations exposed to vulnerabilities for extended periods of time, according to survey results released on Wednesday. - +
When security staffers fail up 23/07/2008 09:40:52
Think your security staffers are trustworthy? Competent? Knowledgeable? Ask a security professional for horror stories and you might think again. - +
Marriott Takes Disaster Recovery, Virtualization Underground 14/07/2008 11:09:36
Hurricane Katrina and the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center caused scores of companies to reconsider their disaster recovery and business continuity plans, whether they were affected by those catastrophic events or not. - +
Your World. . . Hacked 02/10/2007 10:51:23
The call to Bob Bailey, an IT executive with a major US government contractor, came on an otherwise ordinary day in October 2003. "Why are you attacking us?" demanded the caller, an IT leader with a Silicon Valley manufacturer. He wanted to know why Bailey's company had launched a denial-of-service attack against his network - +
Spinning the Wheel of Misfortune 04/01/2006 19:57:05
When Michael Chertoff took over 11 months ago as the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, he vowed that the department would adopt a risk-based approach. No one really argued. It made sense to focus resources on the country's biggest risks. - +
Beyond Passport Vulnerabilities 20/01/2005 12:17:50
Security flaws in high-profile products like Microsoft's Passport led experts and vendors to find new ways to disclose bugs - +
The Optimistic Pessimist 02/04/2004 10:43:28
Mike Hager escaped from the World Trade Centre and got OppenheimerFunds up and running again in less than five hours. Now he faces another challenge: keeping the corporate world interested in business continuity planning. - +
Single sign-on effort falls short 16/12/2003 09:19:30
Just when I thought we had solved one set of IT security problems by getting the human resources department to properly train new hires, another has cropped up with our IT team and a new single sign-on system it has deployed. The system was designed without input from the IT security team and at least one other department that will be affected. Now we're dealing with the issues after the fact. - +
Patching: Process matters 09/12/2003 09:19:08
The list of all-too-familiar names - Nachi, Klez, Lovsan, SoBig, BugBear, Swen, Blaster and Yaha - represents only a sampling of the most prevalent worms and viruses that slithered into corporate networks this fall. But they all have one thing in common: Patches were readily available before most damage had been done. So why do these intruders continue to wreak such havoc?
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