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Entries from Realtime Community | Messaging and Web Security tagged with 'Web 2.0'


The Coming Dominance of Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is going to become the dominate paradigm for delivering IT services, the big questions surround who, when, and how. Some IT sages venture some insights....

Patching for Web 2.0 Vulnerabilities

You may have woken up this morning to find your PC automatically rebooted after a Microsoft critical update. This time around, Microsoft provided critical patches for MS Project, Graphics Device Interface (GDI), VBScript and JScript, and a vulnerability in ActiveX...

Will There Be A Pause in the Web 2.0 Party?

Web 2.0 security vulnerabilities are well known and it's almost as well known that these aren't really new - the difference with Web 1.0 is more of quantity than quality. Web 2.0 tools and techniques let us build apps faster,...

Securing Mashups with Smash

IBM is releasing secure mashup ("Smash") technology into open source through the OpenAjax Alliance. Many developers and security professionals are justifiably concerned about Ajax security and Smash is an attempt to address the inherent weaknesses of Ajax....

Web 2.0 Identity Theft

Web 2.0 technologies can be exploited for identity theft in a couple of different ways. First, there is a harvest model of collecting information that is voluntarily posted to sites, such as MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn; and second, there is...

Social Enterprise Can't Skimp on Security

I came to security from an applications and database development background. I can understand some of my colleagues in those areas feeling like security pros are too obsessed with security and not enough with functionality. I get it, we're working...

Military Blocks Blogs Web 2.0 Sites; Will Businesses Follow?

Yesterday the U.S. military enforced new rules regarding the use of military networks and computers for sharing information. Commanders worry about leaked information. The same type of problem faces businesses protecting intellectual property and other confidential information. Will the military's...

Poor Web 2.0 Design Harms Usability and Security

History is repeating itself. Poor usability was a problem with client server apps back when Visual Basic opened GUI design to pretty much every programmer. Then easy to use HTML tools turned us all into graphic designers. Now Web 2.0...

Web 2.0 Small but Still Weak on Security

Wow, lots of talk about the Pew report on Web 2.0. There's nothing like a report on omnivores to get them going. (Omnivores, according to Pew, are those who "participate in cyberspace and express themselves online and do a range...

Google Gets a Free Ride on Security

Yesterday's post asked if Google would leverage its content indexing technologies to scan for malware. The problem for us is that attackers are moving from email to Web sites for distributing malware. Given the problems with compromised Google Ad Word...

Mozilla Thunderbird: Last Great Email Client?

Mozilla has released an upgrade to the popular open source email client Thunderbird. For those of us Thunderbird users who have wondered by Outlook users put up with security (or lack thereof) of Microsoft's mail client, we're now asking is...

Why Push Dell for Linux and OpenOffice?

The IdeaStorm site at Dell is collecting suggestions from customers and he most widely sought changes center around the pre-installed Linux and OpenOffice. Why is there this push to Linux and OpenOffice? Here are some possibilities. 1. The voting population...

Google Docs & Spreadsheet Security and Privacy

We are going to keep more and more of our work on central servers, whether on private company servers or on Google's or some other third party. There have been a lot of good discussion about the security and privacy...

Can Google Apps Improve Security?

I've been arguing for shifting from desktop appliciations network based applications because we can more effectively secure servers and high-powered client devices are too much of a resource for spammers and botnet herders. Now Google is making Google Apps official...

Rich Internet Application (RIA) Security

Web applications are gaining features of client server applications and with this new functionality comes additional security risks. This podcast describes several techniques that should be used in RIAs to improve the security of those applications....

Google Ruling Raises Questions for Web 2.0 Mashups

The finding by a Belgian court that Google has violated copyright protections by displaying links and segments of newspaper articles raises questions about the legality of mashups. Belgian Court Rules That Google Violated Copyright Laws - New York Times details...

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