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News And Updates
Private records of 8,600 Ontario teachers stolen
News Brief, 2010-01-28
Laptops containing sensitive and unencrypted records belonging to about 8,600 Ontario teachers have reportedly been stolen.This theft comes a month after a health worker in Whitby, Ont., lost a USB key containing the names and OHIP numbers of 80,000 people in Durham Region.This prompted Ontario's privacy commissioner to order government agencies to encrypt personal information on devices such as USB keys and laptops.
From The Globe and Mail
Laptop Reliability Study, Asus and Toshiba Come Out On Top
News Brief, 2009-11-17
New data from SquareTrade (one of the bigger warranty providers) says Asus and Toshiba have the least hardware malfunctions over 3 years, while one-in-four HP laptops are projected to experience problems. Oh, and netbooks are worst of all...
From Gizmodo
Free Microsoft Antivirus Now Available
News Brief, 2009-09-29
Microsoft has released its new free antivirus product to the world today, Microsoft Security Essentials which has been in public beta In the States for quite a while now is finaly available to the masses. The Reviews so far have been positive and will put pressure on other free anti-malware providers to step it up. If you dont want to invest in a retail anti-virus then microsoft security essentials is a decent choice from the free anti-virus market. This will not however replace a full anti-virus security suite.
From Monidax Inc,
IT security breaches soar in 2009
News Brief, 2009-09-29
IT security breaches – everything from viruses to intellectual property theft to abuse by employees – cost the average Canadian organization $834,149 in 2009, almost double the amount reported in last year's study. The average number of reported IT security breaches also soared to 11.3 per organization in 2009, compared to 3 per organization in 2008.
From The Globe And Mail
Microsoft Banned from Selling Word in the US
News Brief, 2009-08-12
Toronto-based i4i Inc won an injunction against Microsoft regarding the company’s XML patents. In the words of i4i, the injunction “prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing to the United States any Microsoft Word products that have the capability of opening .XML, .DOCX or DOCM files (XML files) containing custom XML”. Microsoft has been given 60 days to comply.
From Mashable
Woman Loses $4K to Scammer Posing as Friend on Facebook
News Brief, 2009-09-04
Jayne Scherrman, of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, was the unfortunate victim of a scam that turned her compassion and trust into a $4,000 profit, the AP reports. A still unknown crook hacked the Facebook account of Jayne's friend Grace Parry and began to send Jayne messages, purporting to be Grace and claiming that she and her husband had been detained in London and were in need of money.
From Switched
Microsoft's launches free AV offering
News Brief, 2009-06-23
Microsoft launched a beta version of its forthcoming free antivirus software on Tuesday, aiming to protect users who, for one reason or another, have not installed security applications on their computers from other providers.
From SecurityFocus
MSFT, Adobe and Apple patch together
News Brief, 2009-06-10
The three software companies issue major patches, fixing 31 vulnerabilities in Microsoft's operating system and applications, more than a dozen issues in Adobe, and over 50 serious flaws in Apple's Safari browser.
From SecurityFocus
Data shows Grumblar still threatens
News Brief, 2009-06-08
A Web security firms finds that the drive-by-download threat compromised more than 80,000 Web sites by late May.
From SecurityFocus