Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)

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Visit the excellent Security Blog By Dr. Eric Cole of McAfee. He delves deep into Advanced Persistent Threats and explains what to do and what not to do to counter these threats.

“APT, the Advanced Persistent Threat, is the buzz word that everyone is using. Companies are concerned about it, the government is being compromised by it and consultants are using it in every presentation they give.

One of the main reasons organizations are broken into today is because they are fixing the wrong vulnerabilities. If you fix the threats of three years ago, you will lose. APT allows organizations to focus on the real threats that exist today.”

via McAfee Security Insights Blog » Blog Archive » Advanced Persistent Threat (APT).

Common Email Sending Mistakes

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When sending a message to more than 3 people especially if they do not know each other, please put everyone in the BCC field instead of TO or CC. This way no one will see the other recipients’ emails.

Also if you receive a message that includes compelling well-crafted information asking you to forward to all your friends 99.999% of the time it is a fake or a hoax.

Most likely it has originally been sent by spyware, virus and spam writers to collect people addresses. When you forward it to everyone, this message contains all of our addresses as well as the addresses of previously forwarded  people.

If one of the recipients has a virus or spyware program, it will collect all of those precious valid and verified email addresses and send them to the virus owner. They will sell it to spammers. and spam all your friends and you too.

So please make sure to ask an expert first about these messages before sending to everyone you know.

Google Stops Using Windows Internally due to security concerns

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According to the Financial Times:

“Google is phasing out the internal use of Microsoft’s ubiquitous Windows operating system because of security concerns, according to several Google employees.The directive to move to other operating systems began in earnest in January, after Google’s Chinese operations were hacked, and could effectively end the use of Windows at Google, which employs more than 10,000 workers internationally.”

More at the source via FT.com / Technology – Google ditches Windows on security concerns.

Ninite Easy PC Setup – Silent Unattended Install Multiple Programs At Once

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Ninite.com is a great web service that batch Install multiple apps at once without toolbars or clicking Next. No Toolbars and other junk. No Clicking Ninite automates installers offscreen. Ninite installs the best version of an app for your PC 32 and 64-bit.  Ninite installs apps in your PC’s language. No manual labor means. Installs finish quickly. And it is free. They do have a pro version but the free one is more than most will need.

Ninite Pro has even more features. Learn more

via Ninite Easy PC Setup – Silent Unattended Install Multiple Programs At Once.

Sudo for Windows | Get Sudo for Windows at SourceForge.net

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Sudo for Windows (sudowin) allows authorized users to launch processes with elevated privileges using their own passphrase. Unlike the runas command, Sudo for Windows preserves the user’s profile and ownership of created objects. And it’s free, opensource, and works

via Sudo for Windows | Get Sudo for Windows at SourceForge.net.

Howto: Fresh Ubuntu Install Without Losing Your Current Settings | The Linuxologist Howto: Fresh Ubuntu Install Without Losing Your Current Settings | Bringing Linux to the Masses

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Howto: Fresh Ubuntu Install Without Losing Your Current Settings

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