9/11, A Decade Later — Securing our homeland: Much progress in 10 years, but more to do
Peter King Top Priority Sector: federal_agencies_legislative Image Caption: Rep. Peter King (R-NY) As expected, the media and others are paying closer attention to this anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 than they have in recent years. For whatever reason, 10-year, 25-year, or similarly numbered anniversaries of tragedies garner increased interest and coverage. Homepage position: [...]
More than 26,000 new citizen registrations for Nixle alerts in times of crisis
Top Priority Sector: disaster_preparedness_emergency_response Nixle, LLC, a free provider of informational communication services between government agencies and the communities they serve, received 26,000 new citizen subscribers during two recent natural disasters — Hurricane Irene and the massive Texas wildfires, Nixle said in a Sept. 15 news release. In areas affected by these catastrophes, agencies using [...]
Interested in finding out more about the role of Security Administrator for computer networks?
Yahoo! jobs made brief mention of this role in an article on top jobs, and I’m curious what all is involved in the Security Administrator role. I’ll be doing some google searches for this, but I’m just curious to hear from anyone who might already be in the role about what all is involved in [...]
50 percent more satellites to be launched in the decade ahead
Top Priority Sector: communications Euroconsult, an international research and analyst firm specializing in the satellite and space sectors, forecast on August 25 that an estimated 1,145 satellites will be built for launch during the next 10 years (2011-2020), 51 percent more satellites than the previous decade. Homepage position: 10 read more
Amid growing sales, Android attracts more malware – CNN Money
(gigaom.com) — 2011 is shaping up to be banner year for malware, which is at an all-time high for attacks and is … a significant threat for computer users. Even Apple’s Mac OS X platform was found to have fake anti-virus software for the first time …
Why the password “this is fun” is 10 times more secure than “J4fS!2″
Security companies and IT people constantly tells us that we should use complex and difficult passwords. This is bad advice, because you can actually make usable, easy to remember and highly secure passwords. In fact, usable passwords are often far better than complex ones. So let’s dive into the world of passwords, and look at [...]
Security 101: 11 Simple Ways Your Computers Can Be More Secure – The Business Insider
Security is always one of those topics that are often ignored by business owners. So many of them focus on social media and marketing to get new customers (which they should) yet they do not spend enough time focused on ensuring their business is secure. I …
Spiritually Speaking The Obama has called for More computer security?
and appointed a Computer Czar will he ban all the fundies from RS…..
is it bad to have more than one security program on my computer?
this is my dads computer. its has 3gigs of ram and nearly 200gigs of memory..its slow as fuck! one thing i noticed is it has like 4 or 5 different security programs. could this be the cause of it being slow?
APWG Report: More than One Third of Web Host Victims Repeatedly Exploited By Cybercrime Gangs – Yahoo Finance
WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) is reporting this week that more than one-third of respondents to a new Web Vulnerabilities Survey were repeat victims of phishing attacks that resulted in a successful establishment of …
