Security
Technical Alert for LexisNexis Total Practice Advantage TM Version 8.0 Customers Using the Microsoft® Word Plug-In
By Nerino Petro at 20 July, 2009, 11:42 am
Lexis Nexis has issues a Technical Alert for users of its Total Practice Advantage Product version 8.0 (TPA8) and TimeMatters version 8 (TM8). This Technical Alert details the steps users need to take to insure that TPA8 and TM8 continue to work with MS Word properly by reactivating the Verisign Trusted Publisher Certification by July 23, 2009. Here is the Technical Alert in its entirety:
Read More >>Strong Passwords for Protection: A Contrarian View
By Nerino Petro at 13 July, 2009, 5:35 pm
…interesting review of the major threats to account security with the authors finding the major threats are those that strong passwords alone can’t defend against. Some of the paper is rather technical, but the underlying premise is that the major areas of concern are from phishing and keylogging which the strongest passwords in the world can’t defend against. The end result, according to the authors, is that requiring strong passwords doesn’t necessarily add protection beyond a certain length and only makes it more difficult for the end user to remember.
Read More >>This is one Worm that the Twitterverse doesn’t want to catch.
By Nerino Petro at 1 June, 2009, 1:37 pm
As Twitter becomes more popular with lawyers ( or anyone else for that matter), it becomes a larger target for people with malicious intent to use for their own nefarious purposes. The latest round of attacks has been occurring in the form of a worm which attacks when users click the shortened URLs in a Tweet.
Read More >>There’s No Cure for Stupid – How Failing to Backup Killed JournalSpace
By Nerino Petro at 2 January, 2009, 5:15 pm
Seems the folks at JournalSpace, the popular blog hosting site, failed to pay attention to common backup strategies and best practices and didn’t have ANY BACKUPS. That’s right folks, none, nada, zip, zilch. Instead, they relied on a set of drives mirrored (RAID 1) on a server running OS X server.
Read More >>“Book’em Danno†– Back to My Mac catches thief!
By Nerino Petro at 12 May, 2008, 3:50 pm
Here’s a link to a story about a MacBook user using the Apple Back to My Mac feature to capture an image of the thief who stole her MacBook.
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