Best of billso.com for 19 April 2008

Here's post #3 in my weekly series of excerpts from my blog - billso.com.

Today's post is from 17 April. It's another article on two of my favorite topics: authentication and social media. I track several different issues, and it's fun when I can combine two of these interests into a single article.

Virtual keyboards and monitoring software foil keystroke loggers:

Executives are excellent targets for [keystroke logger] attacks. CXOs often want to bypass corporate security systems for the sake of personal convenience. When executives insist on carrying confidential or valuable corporate data on their laptop’s hard drive, they may as well paint a target on their foreheads...