I have added a shortcut to the Security Alerts and Bulletins Subject. Rather than having to click on General Security and then click on Security Alerts and Bulletins, you can ... Read More

Users fall victim frequently to virus hoaxes and spam chain letters imploring them to share the information with everyone they know as quickly as possible. Emails of a "sky is ... Read More

Innocent Code: A Security Wake-Up Call For Web Programmers by Sverre Huseby is a must-read book for web developers...and highly recommended for everyone else. This book will open your eyes ... Read More

Here is the summary of Secunia Advisories from March 23. 2004. The "highlight" is a vulnerability in the Sun Cobalt implementation of Pine which is ranked as Highly Critical. Other ... Read More

Here are the Secunia Advisories from Monday, March 22. There continue to be a variety of patches and updates from various vendors in relation to flaws in OpenSSL. There is ... Read More

In Beyond Fear, Schneier states "In America, automobiles cause 40,000 deaths every year; that's the equivalent of a full 727 crashing every day and a half-225 total in a year." ... Read More

Wireless networking can make life very convenient. However, convenience generally comes at a price. If you can pull your data out of the airwaves and send your passwords and other ... Read More

Kids often develop a secret knock to get into the neighborhood clubhouse- two knocks, a long pause, 1 knock,a short pause and then 3 quick knocks- voila! You're in!! Network ... Read More

March 19 saw eight new Secunia Advisories ranked with a Medium or higher criticality. There were a couple straggling vendors with updates for the OpenSSL vulnerability. There were also three ... Read More

Many home users relate to their computer as if its another appliance- the toaster makes toast, the DVD player plays movies, the vacuum sucks up dust...and the personal computer communicates ... Read More

The Thursday, March 18 Secunia Advisories contained a slew of bulletins regarding various Linux vendors releasing updates to counter an OpenSSL flaw which could lead to a denial of service ... Read More

Maintaining the new Security Alerts and Bulletins Subject turned out to be more of a daunting task than I had imagined. New vulnerabilities- even when I eliminate the ones that ... Read More

Cisco, a premier vendor of IPSEC based VPN solutions, is diversifying more into the SSL VPN market as well. Cisco is buying SSL VPN maker Twingo Systems for $5 million ... Read More

Last Tuesday was the monthly Microsoft Security Bulletin and patch release day. Three new bulletins were released: MS04-008 affects Windows Media Services. MS04-009 affects Microsoft Outlook 2002. And, MS04-010 affects ... Read More

Its an age old debate with adamant and vehement supporters on both sides of fence- is Linux more secure than Windows? Is Windows more secure than Linux? I don't think ... Read More

Cheap hard drive space is great! Instead of constantly running out of disk space and having to sift through and clean out old files and rarely used programs you can ... Read More

Firewalls are good, but when malicious traffic originates from inside your network or enters through a hole in the firewall you may need another line of defense to protect you. ... Read More

Vulnerability scanning can be a key part of ensuring the continued security of your network. This is a brief article introducing the concepts of vulnerability scanning- how it works, what ... Read More