Security is often presented as an expensive proposition, particularly for corporate networks. Commercial tools and applications for enterprise environments can run tens of thousands of dollars. But, whether you are ... Read More

Roberta Bragg is well-known throughout the information security industry. You almost can't open a magazine or visit a tech web site without seeing her name as one of the contributors. ... Read More

Members of the Administrators group typically have full control to modify registry keys. Unwittingly executing a malware-infected or other questionable program with Administrator privileges can result in registry additions or ... Read More

The sole sponsor of the Nessus Project, out of which the open-source vulnerability scanner Nessus originated, is Tenable Network Security. Tenable makes a variety of other network security and assessment ... Read More

It is nice to be able to share files and documents with other computers across a network, but what if you don't want to share? Even if you don't expressly ... Read More

A new worm is spreading around the Internet disguised as a plea for donations to help the victims of last month's tsunami. People around the world have come together to ... Read More

I think the Apple Mac fanatic police might revoke John Rizzo's membership for suggesting that the Mac is in any way not intuitive or perfect just the way it is, ... Read More

SearchSecurity.com with host Shon Harris have now released the free training and webcast for the 7th domain of the CISSP exam, Business Continuity. According to the SearchSecurity.com Security School web ... Read More

In conjunction with their second Tuesday of the month release schedule for monthly Security Bulletins, Microsoft also released the inaugural version of their Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool. This ... Read More

I had intentions of conducting my own review of the new Microsoft AntiSpyware beta program released last week. However, my review would probably not be anywhere near as comprehensive or ... Read More

To wish everyone a Happy New Year, Microsoft has released their first Security Bulletins for 2005. The new year means that the counter starts over, so the bulletins are MS05-001, ... Read More

Tomorrow is the big day for the Microsoft Security Bulletins for January. The preliminary word is that at least one of the January Security Bulletins will be rated "Critical" by ... Read More

Microsoft has made a number of changes to the default settings in Windows 2003 to make it more secure “out of the box.” This is the second in a 2-part ... Read More

A few months ago Bill Gates announced that Microsoft was taking spyware serious as a security concern and planned to address the problem. Last month Microsoft purchased Giant Company Software, ... Read More

Internet security monitoring firms such as the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center have noted a marked increase in scans for Windows server systems using WINS. Microsoft issued Security Bulletin MS04-045 ... Read More