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Beginner’s Guide to BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) 

The era of IT departments mandating specific hardware, operating systems, or technologies is quickly eroding.  In its place a new culture is growing where employees are granted more autonomy—and given more responsibility—for their own technology. If you’ve been to enough parties you’re probably familiar with the term BYOB—a common acronym of the phrase “bring your […]

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Windows 8 Release Preview Available for Download 

Today on the Building Windows 8 blog, Microsoft announced the availability of the Windows 8 Release Preview.  (Read the press release here.) There are a couple of things to note that are of note to us here in the land of Trustworthy Computing: New Family Safety features and enriched privacy and security controls when browsing […]

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Profile of A Global Cybercrime Business – Innovative Marketing 

(Reuters) – Hundreds of computer geeks, most of them students putting themselves through college, crammed into three floors of an office building in an industrial section of Ukraine’s capital Kiev, churning out code at a frenzied pace. They were creating some of the world’s most pernicious, and profitable, computer viruses. According to court documents, former […]

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Common Objections – Comparing Linux Distros with Windows 

Once again, my effort to explore common misperceptions (more recently exploring unpatched statistics) has brought out some of the common objections from those that don’t necessarily like the results.  Very rarely do I get comments that can find a substantive problem with the analysis – instead the arguments tend to be detailed variations of “your comparison […]

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Linus’s Law aka “Many Eyes Make All Bugs Shallow” 

How many of you have heard “many eyes make all bugs shallow”?  My guess is that many of you have and that it may have been in conjunction with an argument supporting why Linux and Open Source products have better security.  For example, Red Hat publishes a document at www.redhat.com/whitepapers/services/Open_Source_Security5.pdf, which they commissioned from TruSecure […]

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Washington Post – A Time to Patch III: Apple 

You’ve probably already read Brian Krebs article A Time to Patch III: Apple, but if you haven’t, I encourage you to read it and read the various responses he received – the responses run the gamut of Linux advocates (“You do understand that Mac OS X is not a version of Linux, and is not […]