Entries from Realtime Community | Messaging and Web Security tagged with 'Web 2.0'
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....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on October 26, 2008 8:41 PM
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...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on April 9, 2008 7:29 AM
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,...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on April 3, 2008 7:56 AM
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....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on March 13, 2008 7:41 AM
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...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on January 14, 2008 3:29 PM
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...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on November 6, 2007 12:52 PM
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...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on May 15, 2007 8:30 AM
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...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on May 14, 2007 9:46 AM
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...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on May 8, 2007 8:15 AM
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...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on April 26, 2007 7:33 AM
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...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on April 20, 2007 8:26 AM
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...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on February 27, 2007 8:26 AM
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...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on February 23, 2007 7:33 AM
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...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on February 22, 2007 7:51 AM
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....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on February 20, 2007 7:07 PM
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...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on February 13, 2007 5:46 PM
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