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).

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Creating a Culture of Security

I read a blog post that quoted a security professional saying,  ‘culture is defined as the beliefs we accept without question.’ The blogger, also a security professional, went on to say that his goal is to generate a new security culture, a security culture that “everyone accepts and makes a natural part of their activities.”

That definitely got me going, so I left a comment that explained why I disagreed with that statement.

Log in as Root or Administrator?

I know a lot of you are security conscious and some of you even roll your eyes at clueless users who seldom think of security. But how many of you regularly use an account on your home or work computer (or both) that have administrative or root privileges?

Most of you KNOW that using an account with privileged access on a daily basis to create documents, read email, and surf the web , etc., is a bad idea. Perhaps you think that because you’re more security conscious and more careful that it isn’t as much of risk for YOU.