Thursday, September 8, 2011

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Social engineering against information systems: What it is and how it works

Posted: 07 Sep 2011 03:36 AM PDT

This briefing defines social engineering; in particular the types of attacks, influencing techniques, channels used, who is after the data, and suggested controls to reduce the risk of social engineering.

Children excluded from school shopping?

Posted: 08 Sep 2011 03:43 AM PDT

Anyone who has taken their kids back-to-school shopping knows how hard it can be to resist pleas for a Dora the Explorer folder or a Lightning McQueen lunchbox. But this year, some parents have been testing a new strategy: leaving the little ones at home.

Jared Bernstein: Obama Jobs Speech Preliminary: Understanding How Stimulus Works

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 01:20 PM PDT

I'm not trying to do a "prebuttal" here, but we're already hearing opponents of this administration attack the president's forthcoming jobs plan as reckless spending that will just increase the deficit and blow up the debt. So it's worth making an essential yet poorly understood point about spending on jobs programs of the type we expect to hear Thursday night. Put simply: Temporary spending ...

Two Free Tools To Try For Online Meetings

Posted: 08 Sep 2011 07:01 AM PDT

The online meeting space continues to see lots of innovation, especially at what you can get for free. There is a new service from FreeConferenceCalls.com called FreeScreenSharing.com that says exactly what it does and some major feature enhancements to YamLabs (for Yet Another Meeting) . Sponsor FreeScreenSharing works on both Windows and Mac and on a variety of browsers. You download the ...

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