As 2003 draws to a close and we reflect on the year and start to plan and dream of what 2004 will bring, many of us will turn to declaring ... Read More

A new virus is circulating in Malaysia. The subject line and message lead the recipient to believe that the email contains vital information about upcoming terrorist attacks. Ostensibly the message ... Read More

Recently Romania has been identified as a crux of computer cybercrime. As with Russia, they have many talented programmers who are affected by the poor economies. Given nothing better to ... Read More

The RIAA and MPAA have been on the warpath against the users of P2P (peer-to-peer) file sharing networks- aggressively tracking and prosecuting those found to be trafficking illegal copies of ... Read More

PC Annoyances: How to Fix The Most Annoying Things About Your Computer by Steve Bass is a tremendous collection of tips, tricks, hints and techniques to help you get the ... Read More

A short while ago I posted a short blurb titled "National Strategy to Protect Lobbyists" which pointed out how the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace was almost entirely stripped of ... Read More

Earlier this year a group of highly respected security experts co-authored a paper released by the CCIA (Computer & Communications Industry Association) claiming that the virtual monopoly of the Microsoft ... Read More

Antivirus and security firm F-Secure has put together a paper summarizing the viruses and worms that hit us in 2003 (The Year of the Worm). Marking the 20th anniversary of ... Read More

Checkpoint, one of the premier vendors of enterprise level firewalls, has agreed to acquire Zone Labs, one of the premier vendors of personal firewall software. Zone Labs is particularly well ... Read More

Used properly, packet sniffing can be a valuable tool to help a network administrator monitor and maintain the flow of traffic on the network. However, it is also possible to ... Read More

Marcus Ranum, well-known in the world of computer and network security, has turned his sights on the broader security of protecting our nation. In The Myth of Homeland Security Ranum ... Read More

I have said in various rants and articles in the past that the problem with creating laws is that only the lawful care. Those who are breaking the law will ... Read More

One of the primary tools used by malicious attackers to assess your network weaknesses is the port scan. By running a port scan an attacker can find out what "doors" ... Read More

Ed Skoudis, author of Counter Hack and Malware as well as the video CD tutorial Hack-Counter Hack Training Course, has posted a hacker's challenge on TechRepublic. Playing off of the ... Read More

Network Perimeter Security: Building Defense in Depth by Cliff Riggs is a concise and comprehensive book filled with good information about the technologies you can use to protect your network. ... Read More

You probably wouldn't take medical advice from a doctor who was obese and smoked 2 packs a day. You probably wouldn't be inclined to send your kids to school if ... Read More

When patches are released, depending on the severity level the vendor has assigned the vulnerability, network and security administrators run around in a chaotic frenzy trying to implement the patch ... Read More

I know I shouldn't be surprised. Its politics as usual. I guess I tend to operate on some naive level and live in some utopian wonderland where our elected representatives ... Read More

As much as one third of the spam invading your inbox may be from personal computers that have been compromised with a remote access Trojan. The user may have no ... Read More

You've been told a hundred times not to use your name, birthday, dog's name, wife's name, firstborn child's middle name or any other information that can be deduced or discovered ... Read More

Preston Gralla has collected 100 of the best and most useful hacks for the Windows XP operating system. Whether you want to speed up the boot process, block pop-up ads, ... Read More

If you are looking for ways to improve your computer or network security without spending money, you should be shopping in the Free Tools section of the site. I am ... Read More

The Effective Incident Response Team is a great book to help managers or administrators understand the function of a CIRT (computer incident response team). It is written in English that ... Read More

When security researchers find a vulnerability, and the vendor has been notified and created a fix- the vulnerability is made public and often the exploit code as well. Security researchers ... Read More

In stark contrast to the previous blurb (Tech Firms Lobby Against Government Regulation), security experts, elected officials, and business leaders are holding the National Cyber Security Summit in Silicon Valley ... Read More

One of the suggestions that has risen out of President Bush's National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace has been to have publicly traded companies be required to disclose what steps they ... Read More

The Hacking Exposed series of books is one of the best in terms of helping system owners and administrators understand how attackers think and work so that they can defend ... Read More