The Snake Oil Days of Internet Health

|   In the mid-1800s, Chinese laborers working on the Transcontinental Railroad rubbed sore muscles with an ointment made from the Chinese water snake. According to a 2007 article in Scientific American, a California researcher found that there could have been some medicinal value in that original...

5 Top Trends Redefining CSO Priorities

|   The CSO carries a heavy load, as the person responsible for overall direction of security functions associated with IT applications, communications, and computing services and security within the enterprise. Part of what makes the role of the CSO so challenging is that trends introduce change, and...

Protecting the Supply Chain–The CSO Rides Shotgun

|   When I was a teenager and a group of us headed to the car for some fun, someone would inevitably yell “I’ve got shotgun,” kicking off a race to the car and a round of “discussions” before seating arrangements were finally settled – specifically, who got to sit in the front and who had to...

Career Advice? One Word. Are You Listening? … Cybersecurity

|   Advice on what a young person should choose for a future is as old as civilization. In the United States the classic satirical take on such advice was in the 1967 movie “The Graduate”, when Dustin Hoffman playing an overwhelmed teenager, is nabbed at his high school graduation party by a...

Scrutiny of Mozilla Security Claims

|   One particular vendor claims they are the "safest web browser" - but are they really? Follow this series of articles to see if the claims can stand up to close scrutiny.

Which Desktop OS Had the Most Vulns in Q1 2008?

|   2007, who cares? What have you done for me lately? Let's take a look at some Client/Desktop/Workstation operating systems and see which users had the most ... and the least pain from vulnerabilities and patching from January through March 2008.

Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista - Which Did Better in 2007?

|   You've been hearing the stories about how people just want to stick with Windows XP SP2, but Windows Vista security is supposed to be better. Do you wonder how many vulnerabilities and patches each one had in 2007? Read on...

SQL Server : The Real Security Story

|   SQL Server has come a long way in the past 5 years, though the history seems to linger. Let's look at the recent history and see what the story is with database vulnerabilities.

Windows Server 2008 Launch Security Highlights

|   Building upon the progress made in Windows Server 2003, SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft today launched the new generation of each of these products.

Jesper Johannsen Does Some Windows Vista Analysis

|   Okay, so you had some further questions after reading my Windows Vista One Year Vulnerability Analysis. So, did Jesper Johannson, but he decided to do the analysis and find some answers. Read here to see what questions he asked ... and then go look at the findings.

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