Here’s some links for Audit and IT Audit for dummies, one from the IIA, the other from ISACA. Most of them do not require being a member or logging in.
While these articles are not extensive, they will point new auditors in the right direction, and provide a refresher for the rest of us. Continue reading
Two years ago, I posted Firefox May Already be Dead, which predicted the death of Firefox by Chrome.
Filed under Technology
We all know that LinkedIn was hacked and lost at least 6.5 million hashed passwords, or at least that’s how many were was posted. Besides changing passwords, is anyone thinking about their LinkedIn lock-down/security settings? What about other social media? See further below instructions for locking down LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.
Using great titles and intro sentences are so critical to the success of your blog. Not only do they grab the attention of your reader, great titles and introductory sentences seduce search engines like Google into sending you even more readers.
Interesting things are caught on camera during Google’s street view filming (see here). While the majority of these Google events were mere events that happened to be recorded, it reminds us that camera and computers are capturing our world and our lives.
So why don’t people change their behavior even though they know they are being watched or recorded?
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Other posts about Google and privacy (or lack thereof):
15 Must-See Sights in Google Earth
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I was visiting a friend at large, public company doing some benchmarking when we had to schedule several meetings with IT to gather data. My friend “Meako” starting entering attendees into his online calendar to see whether we could get some important meetings scheduled during the next week.
Filed under Audit, How to..., Security, Security Scout
Greg Shipley,* CTO of Neohapsis, wrote an article in Information Week magazine about cloud computing risks, making the following points:
1) One company discovered it was using Amazon’s cloud services when employees tried to expense the bills. It’s 10 o’clock; do you know where your clouds are?
You might remember the commercial that said, “This isn’t your father’s Oldsmobile,” meaning this car is nothing like the one your father drives. It’s faster, more luxurious, more YOU.
Have you noticed that the opposite is true regarding the hype over social networking and the risk it brings to your business and a computer near you? In other words, to quote an old king, “There is nothing new under the sun.”
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Some people do not understand that both diamonds and the Internet are forever. I found this statement in a discussion on LinkedIn:
I am excited about 2 interviews next week even though I’m not fully qualified for either one.
Filed under Employment, Humor/Irony, Quote of the Weak, Security
Keir Thomas, author of several books on Ubuntu, including the Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference, declares that Firefox has lost its way. He says that the fox is slow and Slashdot users are complaining about it heavily.
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