http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/09/18/237757/behind-the-times-it-managers-leave-systems-dangerously.htm IT departments are fighting the security battles of five or 10 years ago, unaware that their IT systems are dangerously exposed to computer hackers. That was the message from a study published this week by the US security education and research body the Sans Institute and security suppliers Tippingpoint and Qualys. The study is …
Monthly Archive: September 2009
Sep
16
RISE : 671% increase of malicious Web sites
http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=1108 Websense revealed the findings from its bi-annual research report. Its security labs identified a 233 percent growth in the number of malicious sites in the last six months and 671 percent growth in the number of malicious sites during the last year. In the first half of 2009, 77 percent of Web sites with …
Sep
10
Toshiba Laptop BIOS Recovery
Toshiba laptops aren’t like most laptops where you can remove the BIOS battery and let it sit for a few hours to reset the BIOS. So what do you do? There are three forms of BIOS password removal being used currently by Toshiba: 1. Parallel port wraparound connector 2. Shorting a jumper, with power and …