December 01, 2003 — CSO —
| 2000 B.C | Wooden mechanical locks used in Egypt. | |
| 333 B.C. | Alexander the Great cuts the Gordian Knot with his sword and goes on to conquer much of the known world. | |
| 870 | First all-metal locks appear in England. | |
| 1790 | Joseph Bramah challenges anyone to defeat his "unpickable" Bramah lock. (Bramah is better known today for inventing the flush toilet.) | |
| 1851 | Alfred Hobbs picks Bramah's lock in 44 hours. Panic spreads among bankers and merchants dependent on Bramah's and similar locks. | |
| 1856 | George Price publishes his Treatise on Fire- and Thief-Proof Depositories and Locks and Keys, which becomes known as The Burglars' Bible among bankers. | |
| 1904 | Houdini extracts himself from one-of-a-kind handcuffs built over the course of five years and designed to be "escape-proof" | |
| 1940s | Theory of self-replicating code is brought to public light by John von Neumann. | |
| 1978 | Digital uses ARPAnet to send what may be the first spam message. | |
| 1981 | Apple II systems fall victim to the first computer virus known as Elk Cloner. | |
| 1983 | WarGames, starring Matthew Broderick, becomes a hit. Computer hacking goes mainstream for the first time with noncomputer audiences. | |
| 1986 | First PC virus, called Brain, begins replicating itself on floppy disks. | |
| 1988 | Morris worm causes $98M in damage to computer systems worldwide. | |
| 1990 | Robert Morris, worm author, sentenced to three years' probation. | |
| 2000 | Russian hacker steals thousands of credit card numbers from CD Universe's website. | |
| 2001 | Code Red worm infects more than 350,000 computers in 24 hours. | |
| 2002-present | Klez, Sobig, Blaster and no end in sight. | |
Read more about data protection in CSOonline's Data Protection section.
The challenge of true data protection spans databases, internal and external networks, physical and offsite storage, business partners and more. These resources offer expert perspective from the basics through specific key elements of data protection strategies.
Network security basics
Protection, detection, and reaction—those are the three underlying principles your security program must embody
Computer incident detection, response, forensics
Richard Bejtlich shows how to measure and improve the maturity of your incident response
A few good IT security metrics
Stop counting blocked malware attachments and measure things that can contribute to meaningful change
5 key cloud security trends
Cloud security is evolving rapidly—stay on top of it
IT risk assessment frameworks
How to do end-to-end encryption
How to compare and use enterprise antivirus
Also find sample data protection policies in CSO's tools, templates and policies library
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- Patch Tuesday preview, February 2012
Microsoft published its Patch Tuesday Preview for February of 2012 a few minutes ago. IT admins can expect nine bulletins to address 21 security vulnerabilities.
It looks like four bulletins will be rated critical while the rest are designated as important.
Affected Microsoft products are:
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