Network World asked the top security experts in the industry – people who consult with enterprise customers on a regular basis – to name the most common security mistakes that companies make. A fast but interesting reading!

An interesting article form “The Register” Some German coders have developed a free encryption plug-in for webmail accounts. Freenigma comes as a browser plug-in for Firefox which works with Yahoo!, Gmail, Hotmail and other webmail accounts. The eponymous firm behind the technology wants to extend this service to other webmail and social network sites. The [...]

Searching for free stuff on the Internet? Beware what you find. That’s the message form Web safety firm SiteAdvisor. A good article from Securityfocus on the risk of finding not-so-free stuff and internet. “Often, so-called ‘free’ items are anything but free,” the company, recently bought by security firm McAfee, stated in its advisory. “Free screensaver [...]

Many users of the increasingly popular Ubuntu Linux distribution found themselves on Tuesday thrown back to mid-1990s, when a botched update to the graphical X Window subsystem brought them face-to-face with the command-line terminal. An update, pushed out to Ubuntu users Monday night. The updated aimed to fix a problem related to the X Window [...]

If you are convicted that it’s impossibile read here (PDF). According to this report Kobi Alexander, the founder of Comverse, was nabbed in Negombo, Sri Lanka, yesterday by a private investigator. He is wanted by the US government in connection with financial fraud charges. Alexander was traced after he placed a one-minute call using Skype. [...]

It’s strange but it’s true some import web sites take your username and password over plain HTTP even if you do see the little SSL lock on your browser. SecurityMonkey has compiled a short list of these site, giving the proofs of the truth of his  thesis

This New York Times article demonstrates how easy it is to figure out who did the searching on a search engine, the one we use every days like Google, Yahoo or MSN. But there’s a program that help us and gives us the possibility to avoid the tracking. It’s TrackMeNot: TrackMeNot runs in Firefox as [...]

A New York Time article Any business traveler who has logged on to a wireless network at the airport, printed a document at a hotel business center or checked e-mail messages at a public terminal has probably wondered, at least fleetingly, “Is this safe?”

I agree with this list: 10. ChoicePoint data spill 9. VA laptop theft 8. CardSystems hacked 7. Discovery of data on used hard drives for sale 6. Philip Agee’s revenge 5. Amy Boyer’s murder 4. Testing CAPPS II 3. COINTELPRO 2. AT&T lets the NSA listen to all phone calls 1. The creation of the [...]

Cleversafe is an interesting new open source storage project. Unlike data storage mechanisms today that work by making multiple copies of data the Cleversafe software takes an approach based on dispersing data in encrypted slices. The Project uses information dispersal algorithms IDAs to separate data into 11 unrecognizable DataSlices and distribute them, via secure Internet [...]