On May 13, in Austin, Texas, the 40th Annual O.Henry Pun-Off Championship was held. Since I love puns, and am frequently guilty of punning in public, I thought this was an interesting tid-bit to pass along. Enjoy! (or not)
I am often asked to explain the difference between a security compliance audit, a vulnerability assessment, and a penetration test. These exercises do many of the same things, but to a different degree. A security compliance audit is like a 5K fun run, where a vulnerabilty assessment is more like a marathon. A penetration test is an iron man competition.
In the course ...
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US-CERT sent an announcement on May 9th about new resources for small and medium size business owners and managers. Protecting Small Businesses can be found on the FTC website. It includes information about:
- Protecting your business from scams
- Cybersecurity
- Data breach response
- Protecting personal information
There are also helpful videos about:
- Building security into software development
- Controlling access to data
- Defending against ...
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Back on February 22nd, we discussed Facebook’s new Delegated Account Recovery feature. Basically, if you should for some reason forget your password to any account, or lose your two-factor authentication device (smartphone), and can no longer get into your account, Facebook will help you recover the account, as long as it is one that is enrolled with Facebook.
This is not the same thing as password managers like DashLane or LastPass, ...
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