I have noticed a security vulnerability on the iPad – fingerprints!  Each time I use my iPad I have to type in my four digit security code.  This leaves four fingerprints telling you very clearly what four digits I use. 

Now you only have to guess the order – there are only 16 possible combinations.  Unless I wipe the screen each time this makes it really easy to hack my iPad (if it was lost or stolen).

Update: I added a matte screen saver and this helps quite a bit.

 - The Wandering CIO

I have felt the current anti-virus approach is unsustainable and less secure than we think for some time.  But recent news events have really driven home the issues.  (I personally think anti-virus is dead…yep, dead)

Some points to ponder:

It’s less secure than we think because of the “zero-day” problem that nobody really likes to talk about – under a signature-based approach I can only detect what is in the signature file.  An antivirus vendor has to “capture” a virus to create a signature – and then distribute the updated signature to me before I am actually protected.   So we think because we run AV software we are protected – we aren’t.  (continue reading…)