Biggest Problem in Computer Security

What’s the biggest problem in computer security, according to valsmith at carnal0wnage.attackresearch.com? Well, it’s…

Staffing.

As the author admits, the post leans toward self-promotion of the company, but it makes many good points and deserves a read and a good pondering.

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Linking to Other People’s Accounts

When you use a shared PC, sometimes you get to share other people’s passwords.  Especially when people are kind of led to believe they’re safe.

I was wandering around the security landscape last week and was at a client’s business which is quite large and has kiosk PCs for employees and visitors to use to access the open Internet (they lock social networking and other stuff down pretty tight on the business network, so usually you see lines of people tapping away at the rows of kiosk PCs).

Security is Too Much Trouble, Too Complicated

I was thinking about why people don’t take the time and effort to practice good computer security–and then I remembered two things:

Stock Drop due to Data Entry Error?

Check this article out on the SANS Handler’s Diary.

Similar articles from Business Week and PC World.

I’d expect an uptick in new resume postings at Monster, et al.

Top 10 IT Jobs

According to CIO magazine, here’s the hot IT jobs (followed by comments by me in italics):

NOTE: IT Auditors, don’t pass over this article!

1. Security specialist/ethical hacker

One specialty, computer forensics, is hot. Forensic labs are almost always behind in their work. Is it due to a lack of good technicians or that forensic folks aren’t cheap? Either answer is good news.