While Senator Hatch and the RIAA would have you believe that P2P networking is nothing but a cesspool of pedophiles and song-swapping criminals, the federal courts seem to feel otherwise. ... Read More

I have updated a couple more Top Picks lists for information security books. If you are looking for something for yourself or shopping for someone for a birthday, holiday or ... Read More

In an article in Network World magazine, Winn Schwartau, founder of The Security Awareness Company, talks about one of the key failures of programs designed to teach information security to ... Read More

Verisign announced plans to produce a new USB-token to be issued to children to verify their age and identity. The theory would be that children would adopt the use of ... Read More

Microsoft isn't always the evil behemoth of insecurity that the critics make them out to be. Granted, they have their faults, some of them quite serious, but they also suffer ... Read More

Last week Microsoft released Security Bulletin MS04-028 regarding a Critical flaw in the way JPEG graphic images are processed. The vulnerability affects a wide range of Microsoft operating systems and ... Read More

Sub7 remains one of the most versatile and widely used pieces of malicious code. Sub7, a.k.a. Backdoor-G, is a RAT, or remote access Trojan, which is small yet quite powerful. ... Read More

Prevx recently introduced a Home version of their IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) software free for personal use. Prevx markets the product as a "complement to existing signature based Antivirus and ... Read More

Ebay and Paypal are two of the primary targets of phishing scams. A member wrote into the Internet / Network Security Forums to say "Is there an eBay expert on ... Read More

I have posted a new free email course on the site. This one is a 6-part course corresponding with the 6 "Introduction To..." articles found under the Security Tools section ... Read More

Microsoft released their security bulletins for the month of September yesterday. There are two this month. MS04-027 is rated as Important and affects the WordPerfect Converter. MS04-028 is rated as ... Read More

Last week Apple released a major patch update for the Jaguar and Panther versions of their Mac OS X operating system. The Mac has traditionally been considered to be a ... Read More

The "For Dummies" series of books has established itself firmly as a household word. There is a "For Dummies" book on almost every subject imaginable (and then some). The popularity ... Read More

Have you ever wanted to know exactly what is involved in computer forensic investigations? Maybe you have a question about how to create an exact forensic copy of a password-protected ... Read More

OK, it is not exactly breaking news in terms of Internet or network security, but Kevin Mitnick was the first of the notorious hackers whose name has become known throughout ... Read More

I updated and modernized the Free Antivirus Software under Tools and Utilities. The AVG product was updated from version 6.0 to version 7.0 and two new products were added: Clam ... Read More

Today I added two new Top Picks to the Book Reviews section of the site. If you are looking for a book about cryptography or encryption or about computer security ... Read More

The Nutter's Help Desk column by Ron Nutter on NetworkWorldFusion provides some great information. I have found one of the best ways to learn is from other's mistakes- or at ... Read More

A review of the book PDA Security: Incorporating Handhelds Into The Enterprise by David Melnick, Mark Dinman and Alexander Muratov. PDA's are becoming quite ubiquitous and offer an avenue of ... Read More

Prevx released a Home version of it's host-based intrusion prevention system (HIPS) which is available for free for personal use. Unlike most other IDS (intrusion detection systems) and IPS (intrusion ... Read More

With the holidays approaching I thought it might help those shopping for the uberhackers or network security geeks in their life (or maybe someone they think just needs to know ... Read More

It seems that for every attack vector network and security administrators secure two new ones pop up. While many companies are still trying to handle "old" problems like insecure wireless ... Read More