Wednesday, October 01, 2008

the big red button

Hi all
here is a message from the university who have built a programme to help with security issues. I have just downloaded and installed this programme and it is really good. Please pass it on to anyone who may not be on our mailing list on the network. If you have any security issues at all please ask the team, the email address is below or just 'reply all' to this email and it will reach them. Any information you give them will contribute to the safety of our network. It works fine on my pc, and a 'big red button' sits on your desktop ready to take a picture of the window you are bothered about. So if you see a popup when you are surfing, or open an email that worries you - then just press the button, and send the picture to the team at the university. The more people who respond the better, no problem is too small or too big, so please take this great opportunity to help build a security profile.
thanks
chris

The Big Red Button is a simple program that we hope can be used to understand the security concerns of normal computer users. Using this program you can a take picture of your screen that shows a security problem, describe it, and send it to us for advice. We're hoping this will make voicing concerns more simple, and for a while we're offering to respond personally to each submitted problem with suggestions. More information about the program and our project is available from the Big Red Button website - http://bigredbutton.lancs.ac.uk/ [http://bigredbutton.lancs.ac.uk/] We're hoping that using the information you can give us we'll learn more about your security concerns and the day to day issues you face, and from this we can improve the security on the Wray network for all users. If you have any questions you can contact the team at bigredbutton@comp.lancs.ac.uk [mailto:bigredbutton@comp.lancs.ac.uk]"

Labels: , ,

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home