Admit it. Sometimes you resort to speaking to- or even cussing at- your computer out of frustration when you can't get it to do what you want it to do. ... Read More

Windows XP Home is more secure than previous home operating systems from Microsoft such as Windows 98 or Windows Me, but it still has a long way to go. Microsoft ... Read More

Late last year I reviewed a product from Lockstep Systems- Backup For One. It was an excellent product that I found to be simple to configure and which performed automated ... Read More

Network and security administrators have an entire arsenal of books available to illustrate for them the tricks, tools and techniques used by malicious hackers to find and exploit weaknesses in ... Read More

If you subscribe to mailing lists such as Bugtraq or Secunia or even just get email alerts from your operating system and application vendors you may have noticed that there ... Read More

Computer and network security is obviously a serious concern to corporations. Entire teams of people are hired to implement and administer various security technologies- firewalls, antivirus, intrusion detection, etc. But, ... Read More

Microsoft released four new security bulletins this month: MS04-011, MS04-012 and MS04-013 are all rated as Critical while MS04-014 is ranked Important. These flaws affect a broad range of Windows ... Read More

The Metasploit Project released version 2.0 of the Metasploit Framework recently. The Metasploit Framework is designed ostensibly to be a tool for security auditors and administrators to test their networks ... Read More

Nessus is a very powerful vulnerability scanner, but being open source it is missing some bells and whistles that management and administrators look for. Things like centralized management and slick ... Read More

This comes up again periodically- this question of whether an unauthorized intruder who infiltrates your computer network is a "hacker". True hackers bristle at the "mis-use" of the term. So, ... Read More

April Fool's Day is the annual day to celebrate pranks, jokes and mayhem. The celebration dates back a thousand years or so- possibly having origins even further back in various ... Read More