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Slideshow: 10 great technologies to secretly install on Mom's PC
She's your mom. She's risen to every challenge, not the least of which was raising you to be the fine, upstanding PC enthusiast you are today.
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Would a 3D-printed gun really be legal?
Defense Distributed, the pro-gun nonprofit working to make 3D-printable gun designs freely available to everyone on the Internet, recently inched one step closer toward achieving that goal. The Austin, Texas-based group last week was granted a federal firearms license from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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Few SMBs worried about document and data security risks: Konica Minolta
Three-quarters of Australian SMBs are leaving themselves open to document and data security breach.
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Samsung will issue firmware fix for printer security flaw on Friday
Samsung Electronics will close a security hole in the firmware of some of its printers by issuing an update on Friday, and said they could be protected by disabling SNMP.
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Samsung printers contain hardcoded backdoor account, US-CERT warns
Printers manufactured by Samsung have a backdoor administrator account hard coded in their firmware that could enable attackers to change their configuration, read their network information or stored credentials and access sensitive information passed to them by users.
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Dell targets ANZ security opportunities as SecureWorks debuts locally
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AusCERT 2013: Cloud-based scanner identifies new malware by its ancestry
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AusCERT 2013: Users, cats more likely hack culprits than cyber-espionage: Trustwave
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ACMA database keeps finger on Australia’s malware pulse
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Lethal medical device hack taken to next level
Incident handling is a vast topic, but here are a few tips for you to consider in your incident response. I hope you never have to use them, but the odds are at some point you will and I hope being ready saves you pain (or your job!).
- Have an incident response plan.
- Pre-define your incident response team
- Define your approach: watch and learn or contain and recover.
- Pre-distribute call cards.
- Forensic and incident response data capture.
- Get your users on-side.
- Know how to report crimes and engage law enforcement.
- Practice makes perfect.
Warning: Tips for secure mobile holiday shopping
I’m dating myself, but I remember when holiday shopping involved pouring through ads in the Sunday paper, placing actual phone calls from tethered land lines to research product stock and availability, and actually driving places to pick things up. Now, holiday shoppers can do all of that from a smartphone or tablet in a few seconds, but there are some security pitfalls to be aware of.
