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Posted in News on Feb 19th, 2008
Federal Computer Week news editor, Jason Miller, is reporting “Experts find fault with cyberdirective.” I will not copy the whole article; just enough of these interesting quotes to provide a news summary. Glenn Schlarman, a former OMB official in charge of security policy, makes the very important point “To solve the security problem, they [...]
Posted in Opinion on Feb 18th, 2008
“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.” — Abraham Lincoln
SANS maintains the @RISK bulletins, which summarizing the most important vulnerabilities and exploits identified during the past week. Today, I was looking at the summary [...]
“Give people what they want, but leave them wanting more and they are yours forever.” — P.T. Barnum
Normally, I would recommend against using a recently released operating system and the latest beta version of a software package. Since I was tasked with looking for problems that might arise with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), [...]
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