A recent Harris Poll shows that cloud computing's lack of security -- or at least its perception -- is making many Americans uneasy about the whole idea. "One of the main issues people have with cloud computing is security. Four in five online Americans (81 percent) agree that they are concerned about securing the service. Only one-quarter (25 percent) say they would trust this service for files with personal information, while three in five (62 percent) would not. Over half (58 percent) disagree with the concept that files stored online are safer than files stored locally on a hard drive and 57 percent of online Americans would not trust that their files are safe online." That's the sobering conclusion from a recent Harris poll conducted between March 1 and 8 among 2,320 adults.

Solution?  Host your stuff locally or at 1USA if you can, then backup using 1USA's encrypted multi-user backup servers.

Modern office copiers can be a security risk. Almost every copier made since 2002 contains a hard drive, which stores a copy of every document the machine scans, prints, copies, or faxes. And if you need proof of just how dangerous this stored information can be, check out the video from CBS News:

Does your organization wipe data from photo-copier hard drives before copiers are decommissioned?

• Internal staff wipe the data.
• Third-party IT or copier technicians wipe the data while the machine is on site.
• Copier dealer or leasing company wipes the data once they reclaim the copier.
• Copier automatically wipes the data with a built-in feature.
• We don't wipe data from copier hard drives.

If your company handles charge cards, double-check your security measures.  Good article.  Link is here.

The registry can be a mysterious and even scary place if you don't understand how it works. If you're an advanced user and want to find out more about all the different registry hives and keys, the different data types, and the different ways of editing the registry, check out Microsoft KB article 256986

Details here.

Microsoft has released a free tool designed to harden software applications against attacks that exploit common security vulnerabilities.
EMET, short for Enhanced Mitigation Evaluation Toolkit, allows developers and administrators to add specific security protections to applications.

http://go.theregister.com/i/cfh/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/27/microsoft_security_tool/

A recent Harris Poll shows that cloud computing's lack of security -- or at least its perception -- is making many Americans uneasy about the whole idea. "One of the main issues people have with cloud computing is security. Four in five online Americans (81 percent) agree that they are concerned about securing the service. Only one-quarter (25 percent) say they would trust this service for files with personal information, while three in five (62 percent) would not. Over half (58 percent) disagree with the concept that files stored online are safer than files stored locally on a hard drive and 57 percent of online Americans would not trust that their files are safe online." That's the sobering conclusion from a recent Harris poll conducted between March 1 and 8 among 2,320 adults.

Solution?  Host your stuff locally or at 1USA if you can, then backup using 1USA's encrypted multi-user backup servers.

Modern office copiers can be a security risk. Almost every copier made since 2002 contains a hard drive, which stores a copy of every document the machine scans, prints, copies, or faxes. And if you need proof of just how dangerous this stored information can be, check out the video from CBS News:

Does your organization wipe data from photo-copier hard drives before copiers are decommissioned?

• Internal staff wipe the data.
• Third-party IT or copier technicians wipe the data while the machine is on site.
• Copier dealer or leasing company wipes the data once they reclaim the copier.
• Copier automatically wipes the data with a built-in feature.
• We don't wipe data from copier hard drives.

If your company handles charge cards, double-check your security measures.  Good article.  Link is here.

The registry can be a mysterious and even scary place if you don't understand how it works. If you're an advanced user and want to find out more about all the different registry hives and keys, the different data types, and the different ways of editing the registry, check out Microsoft KB article 256986

Details here.

Microsoft has released a free tool designed to harden software applications against attacks that exploit common security vulnerabilities.
EMET, short for Enhanced Mitigation Evaluation Toolkit, allows developers and administrators to add specific security protections to applications.

http://go.theregister.com/i/cfh/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/27/microsoft_security_tool/