Articles for July 2009

Traffic Analysis: P2P Found 92% of the Time

July 30th, 2009

The most recent discovery of the first lady’s safe house (Laura Bush) and a detailed list of the civilian nuclear complex, including precise locations of weapons grade nuclear fuel follows closely on the heals of previous P2P discoveries of Marine One blueprints and healthcare records.
Should we really be surprised? No not really, given the findings [...]

IPv6 Threat – Real or Perceived?

July 22nd, 2009

This Network World article talks about the hidden threat posed by rogue IPv6 usage. To a certain extent, this is a bit of a red herring and here’s why. For IPv6 to traverse the corporate network, the routers, switches and infrastructure components need to (a) support IPv6 and (b) it has to be enabled.
Now, assuming [...]

The Twitter Hack: Highlighting the Need to Safely Enable Applications

July 15th, 2009

A recent New York Times blog entry discusses the recent Twitter hack and the safety of cloud-based applications. For an enterprise, safely enabling cloud-based applications means managing which applications you embrace as well as the types of documents and content you share over those approved applications.

Vulnerabilities Discovered for Microsoft DirectX

July 15th, 2009

As some of you may know, Palo Alto Networks discovered 2 critical vulnerabilities for Microsoft DirectX which were released today via Microsoft’s July security bulletin. Successful exploitation of these critical vulnerabilities can allow an attacker to run remote code on a victim’s PC. The 2 vulnerabilities CVE-2009-1538 (DirectX Pointer Validation Vulnerability) and CVE-2009-1539 (DirectX Size [...]

The Case for Application Enablement

July 10th, 2009

What do LinkedIn, Twitter, Blogging and Wikis have in common? According to this article, they are increasingly used within enterprises with a quarter of organizations actually rolling out these types of tools across all departments, up from 12% in the previous survey. The survey also points out the blended use of these applications for both [...]

Seven Things You May Not Know About Microsoft SharePoint

July 1st, 2009

SharePoint is Microsoft’s collaboration tool that can be used to host web sites and provide access to shared workspaces, documents and specialized applications such as wikis and blogs. SharePoint sites are actually ASP.NET applications, which are hosted on Microsoft IIS and use a Microsoft SQL Server database as data storage backend.