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Nifty Facebook Maliciousness

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Hi folks,

It’s been a long while since I posted here, but to re-start this blog, I thought I’d share something we found on Facebook recently, together with a video that we made of it. It starts off with a link on the wall of one of your friends that says, “99% of people can’t watch this video for more than 25 seconds”, and if you click the link, you’re taken to a page that looks like it might be morbid or dramatic.

The page tells you that to unlock the video, you need to copy and paste some text from a box on the screen into your address bar.

The wary will realize it’s javascript, and will leave at that point, but the _un_wary will dutifully copy and paste the javascript. The nifty bit is that when you press enter, the script… Read the rest

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Greenplum buy puts EMC further into cloud, BI, businesses

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Computerworld - EMC’s agreement to buy Greenplum Inc. adds a key component to the storage vendor’s strategy to boost its business intelligence and data analytics business.

EMC has long been trying to shed its image as a data storage vendor in order to become recognized as a player in the larger information infrastructure business. Tuesday’s move is the latest aimed at fulfilling EMC’s goal of providing the hardware and software users need to build large cloud infrastructures, and the analytical tools that can be used to mine data stored within those clouds.

In a written analysis, Pund-IT Inc. analyst Merv Adrian said Greenplum gives EMC a structured data management tool for databases.

Citing dozens of other EMC acquisitions in recent years, Adrian wrote “Disruptive? You bet. Is EMC finished with acquisitions? I doubt it.” The acquisitions have ranged from very… Read the rest

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Enterprise admins should say no to FaceTime

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I’m an Apple advocate. I use a MacBook Pro. I leverage an iPad in the field. I carry an iPhone mated to my consultancy’s Exchange server. But I’m no FaceTime believer.

Apple’s new FaceTime feature, included in the new iPhone 4, enables users to conduct video telephone calls using their new iPhones. According to Apple’s marketing copy, “with the tap of a button, you can wave hello to your kids, share a smile from across the globe, or watch your best friend laugh at your stories.”

Don’t get me wrong. Those are cool uses for a cell phone. I just don’t see much of a legitimate business need for such a feature in the enterprise. Large distributed organizations with remote offices likely already have a dedicated video conferencing solution in place, anyway. There’s no need to reinvent the wheel, especially using a cell

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IT protects the network, but who protects the network from IT?

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PC World - Businesses have gigabytes upon gigabytes of sensitive and confidential data archived on servers, storage arrays, or backup media. Those companies rely on the expertise of information security professionals to protect that data and prevent unauthorized access. The question, though, is “who is protecting the sensitive and confidential data from the information security professionals?”

Cyber-Ark Software has compiled its fourth annual “Trust, Security and Passwords” survey and has uncovered unsettling statistics that companies may find concerning. The survey–conducted with 400 IT administrators and information security professionals at Infosecurity Europe 2010 and RSA USA 2010–found that those entrusted to protect the data may be one of the bigger threats to it.

A Cyber-Ark Software press release explains “The survey found that 67% of respondents admitted having accessed information that was not relevant to their role. When asked what

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How To Hijack Steve Jobs’ Next Presentation

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At the 2007 Macworld keynote, Steve Jobs told a story about how in high school he and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak had invented a “TV jammer” that could wirelessly turn off screens, a trick that’s since been used to wreak havoc on plenty of corporate presentations.

Now security researcher Niels Teusink has shown how that wireless presentation-hacking mayhem can be taken to the next level–and Steve Jobs can only pray that someone doesn’t use his own tricks against him.

In a talk at the Amsterdam “Hack In The Box” Conference last week, Teusink laid out how to build a device with 30 euros’ worth of open source hardware that can hijack the computer of practically any presenter using a wireless presentation device. The hacker wouldn’t just have the ability to control the slides in the victim’s PowerPoint or Keynote presentation, but could take

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