In a couple of weeks, security experts from around the world will be converging on the Moscone Center in San Francisco for the annual RSA Conference. I've been a few times and its quite overwhelming with the entire city filled with infosec companies. Accompanying the event, every major analyst firm and security vendor releases their annual security report, telling us what they've learned over the least year. This year, there's one new thing that's hitting the headlines.
When I started working in IT, back in the 1990s, our primary focus was on reliability first and performance second. Viruses were on the scene - Word macro viruses like Melissa were probably the most significant threat of the day. But as long as our anti-virus software was up to date things were pretty good. Then the world changed.
A Thales report identified that about half the companies they surveyed ranked employee mistakes as a key data security issue. But in Australia, that jumped to a whopping 93%. Why?
Hitting a key over and over again actually works for once. Two security researchers in Spain recently uncovered a strange bug that will let you into most Linux machines just by hitting the backspace key 28 times. Here's how to fix it and keep your data protected.
