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Archives for October, 2009


Twelve Word Tuesday: Is Your Old Remote Access VPN Really Broken?

by John Pescatore  |  October 6, 2009  |  1 Comment

Microsoft Direct Access is just another VPN, albeit a brand-new Windows-only one.

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Security Issues of Browser Turtles Sitting On Top Of Browser Turtles

by John Pescatore  |  October 5, 2009  |  2 Comments

Another example of turtles on top of turtles:  ComputerWorld has a piece on Google coming out with “Chrome Frame,” basically an IE plug-in to run Google’s Chrome browser on top of Microsoft’s IE browser. Now, I like the Chrome browser – I’m using it right now. To me, it made a number of steps in [...]

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Happy Cyberawareness Month!

by John Pescatore  |  October 2, 2009  |  4 Comments

Of course, October is also: Vegetarian Awareness Month Halloween Safety Month Class Reunion Month Positive Attitude Month Auto Battery Safety Month World Kindness Week National School Lunch Week Global Handwashing  Day National Boss Day Snails on Turtles: Whee Month Character Counts Week National Massage Week National Mole Day I bet you can’t even tell which [...]

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Guest Blogger Peter Firstbrook: Where Is The Breakthrough on Desktop Security?

by John Pescatore  |  October 1, 2009  |  9 Comments

Gartner’s lead analyst on endpoint protection, Peter Firstbrook, offered up a guest post on how major advances in desktop protection are badly needed. Peter and I had a bit of an email dialog, so we decided to include that dialog in the post: Peter F: A recently published report from Trusteer (Measuring the in-the-wild effectiveness of [...]

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