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We just completed our second network security seminar in San Luis Obispo, Recovering From a Network Break-In: How Loyal Would Your Clients Be? The seminar was well-attended and very well received. Attendees gained knowledge in how security threats are increasing through exploits and vulnerabilities and specific examples were cited. And we covered [...]

Here’s the deal. I do get irritated with the ‘media’ and ‘hype’. Because I’m in the network security arena, I frequently ask myself, is all the press about network attacks legitimate? Are the fears justified? Then I see something like this that settles it in my mind.
Some of you may remember [...]

Another week, another Highly Critical IE vulnerability published by Secunia.
Secunia - Advisories - Microsoft Internet Explorer “createTextRange()” Code Execution
I recommend monitoring SANS for exploits of this vulnerability and Microsoft patch announcements.
SANS Internet Storm Center - New IE Vulnerability

And along with the BC Government problems, we see that a Chinese bank server network was compromised as a launching pad for a phishing scam.  Again, it wasn’t the Chinese bank data wasn’t the primary target.  The phishers just wanted to use their network to host the phishing site, which then relayed your personal info [...]