Neil MacDonald Quotes (16 Quotes)

The worst mistake Macintosh users could make would be to become complacent in their security practices deluding themselves into thinking that the Mac OS has no vulnerabilities. It does. More will be found and more exploits will appear.

There is no doubt that, as Microsoft and other vendors continue to improve the security of their base operating systems, malicious code writers will 'move up the stack' and target applications.

It is a mistake to assume that the same approach for protecting endpoints using host-based antivirus protection is the same approach that is needed for mobile devices.

This should have been caught and eliminated years ago. They overlooked image format files, and that is where this WMF issue came in.

The fact that Internet Explorer is so widely deployed makes it a prime target. This, combined with the 'social engineering' aspect of these attacks -- tricking the users into installing or clicking on something they shouldn't -- means the browser will continue to be a focal point of attack.

New methods for attacking web applications are growing in volume, complexity and frequency. Organizations should regularly scan Web applications for vulnerabilities and push for early testing. Because many organizations may not have the resources to do this internally, Web application security solution vendors should provide their scanning capabilities in multiple ways - as a product, as a service or in a hybrid model that combines both approaches.

The issue isn't the existence of metadata. The issue is the inadvertent disclosure of metadata as data files leave the user's machine. PC users typically don't understand that the metadata is part of the content of the document.

Obviously, we need to do a better job of preparing ourselves for high quality opponents like this. When we are battling adversity, as well as our opponent, we need to keep our composure and play our game. We didn't do that today and the final stats told the whole story. Hopefully, we can put this game behind us and come in focused tomorrow against Sacramento State.

We did everything we needed to tonight except put the ball in the back of the net. I thought we played at a high intensity throughout and we competed from the opening whistle. Give credit to Memphis, they did what they needed to do to get the result, but I was very pleased with our play tonight nonetheless.

This is e-mail from your friends and colleagues ... that is worthless.

The hype around mobile-device viruses has been around for several years, but 2006 brings together a couple of necessary prerequisites for the problem to become real.

With Microsoft's increased emphasis on security and privacy, the issues in Windows Vista should have been addressed deep within the OS during development, not with a tool that requires users to remember to remove or not remove metadata as appropriate.

The metadata problem is going to get worse with Windows Vista. Firms need some way of ensuring that they do not suffer embarrassment.

We need goals like Clinton's just like we need ones like Johnson's. We need goals from inside the six-yard box, we want the strikers to get close in and put them away.

Until people get their e-mail under control, it's going to be very difficult to access e-mail from handheld devices.

This is a killer for customers of Office 97. They have had this policy for their operating systems, but I would say it was never clearly documented to the majority of their Office customers.