Mobility
BlackBerry faces ban in UAE, Saudi Arabia, to cooperate in India
It appears to be an increasingly monitored world for mobile devices, as governments across the globe rev up their efforts to snoop into mobile messaging.…
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Administration
Renewing Certificates: DigiCert impresses again with customer service
Have you had a service that uses SSL/TLS, such as Outlook Web App (OWA), Exchange ActiveSync (EAS), AutoDiscover, or perhaps just a web site, impacted…
Administration
HTC Droid not synchronizing with Exchange 2010?
Last year Apple riled IT departments and security community when it was revealed that before the iPhone 3.1 OS release, iPhones had bee incorrectly reporting…
Administration
Social Engineering Attack Disguised As Mailbox Quota Message
Social engineering is all about psychological attacks— convincing a user to willingly divulge information is much more convenient, in most cases, than actually brute-forcing your…
Exchange 2010
Exchange 2010: Remove a RBAC Role from a Role Group
Exchange 2010 ships with a great new security feature – Role Based Access Control (RBAC). Having worked on the RBAC architecture of another product in…
Google
Gmail discovers benefits of SSL, defaults to HTTPS
Google seems to have discovered the benefits of using SSL to encrypt HTTP traffic. In a blog post on the Gmail blog, Engineering Director Sam…
Security
cc:Betty: A cool web app you may want to block
If you haven’t looked at Palo Alto-based cc:Betty yet, perhaps you should. cc:Betty promises to keep everyone on the same page. Still in beta, it’s…
Apple
iPhone OS 3.1 Security Changes and Exchange ActiveSync Policy
Apple implemented device encryption in the iPhone 3GS, improving its odds of being considered for enterprise deployment. However, users using Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) to connect…
Microsoft
The ‘Catastrophic’ Windows 7 bug and security vulnerability that never was
Perhaps I should’ve used a different headline for this post. Something like “InfoWorld’s conspiracy to derail the Windows 7 product launch”. But that would be…
News
Trust Thy Certificate? New SSL Vulnerabilities Revealed At BlackHat 2009
It’s BlackHat time in Vegas, and I was expecting some interesting security revelations to make headlines, but not as serious as the SSL vulnerability revealed…