Security

About Free Antivirus Software (April 29, 2010)

Last week various members on the LSTech list had a discussion about the current best bet for free antivirus software.

Yet more PDF security issues - April 2010

As an archivist, I've always thought of PDFs as the safest (or perhaps just the most static) of files types to share documents, but PDF readers and the file format itself have been the subject of

"How to effectively contract your network privacy" - ComputerWorld Security, 2/18/10

 

At a time when many legal services groups are using web-based services and backing up their data with co-location, protecting confidential information is a concern.
 

About Those Mammoth Email Attachments...

Last month the LStech list had a significant discussion about protocols around the size of email attachments.  Someone suggested that NTAP do a little res

What is Metadata?

What is Metadata?

Metadata is “data about data” – and refers in this context to information which is automatically embedded in documents (or records) by computer programs and which ma

Top Security Minds Urge Google to Encrypt All Services (Security Fix, June 16, 2009)

This post from the Washington Post blog

Passing along information about security problems with Adobe Reader (April 2009)

Recently, a couple of articles have come across the Lstech list and our LStech delicious feed which highlight security issues with Adobe Acrobat Reader

Time to update Foxit Reader, if you use it

Passing this security alert along from the LStech list:

 

This came in from the SANS list.  I know a few on the list have mentioned using Foxit:

Websites for Techies - A Community Generated Reference

We're collecting a list of websites that legal aid techies find invaluable in their work.  This list will seed a link library on our new website -- but I've decided not to wait for the new

Securing Your Computer Applications, Records, and Systems (2006 API Annual Conference)

This is a powerpoint presentation given by Catherine Sanders Reach at the 2006 API Annual Conference.  The presentation many covers topics including the risk of being attacked by a virus, how a vi