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The Facebook Account of A Credit Union CEO
What do you suppose could happen if a person with malicious intent was able to gain access to the Facebook account of a credit union CEO? What about a corporate Twitter account? There has been an old hacking technique called HTTP Session Highjacking that has recently been brought to the front of the pack with the release of Firesheep [...]
Read moreThe Most Overlooked Aspect in Credit Union Security
There is one big, scary security hole in credit unions that most IT people pass over and I’ve never heard an auditor mention: domain registration and DNS hosting. Whoa, whoa, whoa, DNS sounds technical. And it is. But domain registration is very self explanatory. You’ve seen the GoDaddy commercials (or bought domains in a drunken stupor late at night) so you [...]
Read moreFree Things IT Can Do Webinar
We just finished up the first webinar with CU Tech Talk on Free Things IT Can Do to Improve Efficiency and Member Satisfaction. Here’s the presentation for those interested. Free Things IT Can Do View more presentations from Robbie Wright. Click here to download the PDF version of this presentation.
Read moreAuditing the cloud
Cloud computing this, distributed computing that. People hate buzzwords. Cloud computing however, is one you will have to put in your dictionary eventually, if you haven’t already. We’re big fans of cloud computing. It can dramatically change the way that financial institutions leverage infrastructure and their capital. But, cloud computing is still in its infancy. One of the first things most people ask [...]
Read moreSensitive Compartmented Information (and your money)
For those with military experience out there, you may be familiar with SCI. Actually, you probably can neither confirm nor deny your SCI or non-SCI status. Regardless, for those not in the know, SCI is the step above top secret. You’ve heard the old saying, “It is on a need to know basis, and you [...]
Read moreWho knew monkeys could be cool
As I mentioned in my last post, all of my email subscribers (thanks Mom) will be treated to a new, and way better, email version of this site. Previously, we were using Feedburner to deliver email, but we moved to MailChimp last week for this blog as well as any jobs we do for our clients. I’ve [...]
Read moreDon't get filtered out
I mentioned a few posts back about a company called OpenDNS that provides a recursive DNS service. That’s a fancy way of saying that they are the phone book for the internet and translate IP addresses into people-friendly domains like cuna.org. Every computer that you get on points to a DNS server, whether is is [...]
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