After taking the free privacy test on the Anonymizer.com web site and discovering that items like my public IP address. the type of web browser I use and even the ... Read More

We're coming up on the anniversary of the Great Midwest Blackout of 2003 - or whatever catchy term your local news came up with to say over the ominous music ... Read More

According to their web site "The Senate Committee on the Judiciary will hold a hearing on Thursday, July 22, 2004, at 2:00 p.m. in Room 226 of the Senate Dirksen ... Read More

Microsoft is lending support to the anti-phishing coalition National Cyber-Forensics & Training Alliance comprised of the FBI, the National White Collar Crime Center, Carnegie Mellon University and West Virginia University. ... Read More

I am often baffled by how some pieces of malware start spreading. After all of the security awareness and user education programs it would seem reasonable to think that the ... Read More

According to a Computerworld article "Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell on Friday barred officials in three counties from purchasing electronic voting machines after a second round of security ... Read More

Actually both of these are old articles that I have simply repackaged so that they can fit with the "Introduction to" series of articles. Previously I have written "Introduction to" ... Read More

During the second half of 1999 most companies froze everything in preparation for the ominous Y2K bug. Companies did not want to add or change equipment and many did not ... Read More

A few months ago I posted a blurb about a site I had discovered, BleepingComputer.com, that has great forums and tutorials and a variety of information aimed at more or ... Read More

I have focused on spyware a couple of times in the past. A recent example is the 5 Steps To Protect Yourself From Spyware article. There are also links to ... Read More

Since the introduction of Windows NT Microsoft has included support for the NTFS file system in most of its operating systems. Windows 2000 and Windows XP both support NTFS. Many ... Read More

A lot of time, money, effort and other resources go into securing and maintaining security of most corporate networks and servers. There are typically many layers of security including perimeter ... Read More

Only months after purchasing one of the leading anti-spam companies, Brightmail, Symantec has acquired TurnTide. TurnTide makes a router-based antispam device which blocks the unwanted messages at the network perimeter. ... Read More

Tuesday, July 13 was "Black Tuesday" this month- the day that Microsoft releases their security bulletins and patches for the month. July was a little busier than recent months with ... Read More

Simson Garfinkel, one of the authors of Practical Unix and Internet Security, wrote a book published in early 2001 which should still be required reading for just about anyone. Database ... Read More

As is usual with software in general and Microsoft software in particular the release date of upcoming software seems to be somewhat of a moving target. Windows XP Service Pack ... Read More

Windows uses a portion of the hard drive as virtual memory to supplement the RAM memory and allow more programs to run and windows to be open at the same ... Read More

Nessus is quite simply one of the best, if not the best, vulnerability scanners available today. It is one of a few security tools that are freely available as ... Read More

Degunking Windows by Joli Ballew and Jeff Duntemann won't help you be more secure per se, but it will definitely help you to remove files and programs you don't need ... Read More

After the recent Scob Trojan mysteriously started infecting computers that visited well-known web sites it was discovered that malicious code had been planted on these web servers. While it initially ... Read More

You know the old phrase: "the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence"? It applies to computer security as well. In this case it applies to ... Read More

Senator Hatch and his compatriot Senator Leahy must have been inundated with criticism about trying to link their RIAA fight to child pornography. They dropped the acronym for INDUCE (Inducement ... Read More

Defend I.T.: Security By Example is the latest book from Ajay Gupta and Scott Laliberte and is a great compliment to their previous book Hack I.T.. Where Hack I.T. went ... Read More