File sharing is a controversial subject. The RIAA and MPAA would like to just have it banished from the planet. Some companies, like Sony, create portable MP3 players and hardware ... Read More

Polar Bear Corporate Education Solutions along with Kevin Mitnick, author of Art of Deception and the new book Art of Intrusion, will be presenting a 2-day seminar at The Second ... Read More

Many users realize that they should have security software on their computers, particularly antivirus software. A lot of those users actually have an antivirus product installed. But, not very many ... Read More

Some experts say that renaming the Administrator account is pointless. Any worthy hacker knows that the true Administrator account has a unique identifier and how to find it. But, that ... Read More

The more techno-geek of us are familiar at least with the concept of Knoppix. Many know it as a very small, but stable distribution of the Linux operating system which ... Read More

For years there have been variations on the 'Nigerian Bank Scam'. Basically, an individual is promised a very large sum of money, typically in the millions, if they can assist ... Read More

There are many crimes that go unreported. The victims may feel that it is too embarrassing or too traumatic to be worth dragging out. Sometimes they feel that their will ... Read More

Microsoft Internet Explorer offers the AutoComplete feature to remember past entries and automatically pre-populate fields as you type to save you some time and effort. You may find it quite ... Read More

Speaking at the RSA Security Conference, Bill Gates announced that Microsoft will make their Microsoft AntiSpyware product, currently released for beta testing, available for free to licensed owners of Microsoft ... Read More

Microsoft has come up with a unique and seemingly effective concept for detecting root kits, trojans and other malware that may be hiding stealthily on a computer system. According to ... Read More

Harlan Carvey is well-known in Windows incident response and forensics circles. He developed his own 2-day, hands-on course in incident response and "live" forensics in a Windows environment and he ... Read More

Any wireless security expert can attest to just how many people buy wireless networking equipment for their home and set it up using the default configuration with no thought about ... Read More

Many people have choice words to describe Microsoft. People get frustrated when Windows is slow or when they can't figure out how to get Word to work the way they ... Read More

There is good news and bad news this month. The good news is that there are fewer Security Bulletins than Microsoft had predicted. The bad news is that there are ... Read More

Microsoft continued to expand its security offerings by purchasing enterprise antivirus firm Sybari. Last year Microsoft purchased Romanian antivirus firm GeCad, makers of RAV antivirus and recently Microsoft acquired anti-spyware ... Read More

Bush put forth his budget proposal last week which calls for substantial cuts in a number of areas to begin work on cutting the record-breaking deficit he created during his ... Read More

This is just a heads up to make sure you tune in on Tuesday for the full details when Microsoft releases their Security Bulletins for the month of February. The ... Read More

SearchSecurity.com, with host Shon Harris, has posted the 8th lesson in their free CISSP training series. Shon Harris is a CISSP, MCSE and President of Logical Security, a firm specializing ... Read More

Nobody likes strange people calling in the middle of dinner to sell them stuff, yet telemarketing is legal. Nobody likes having 7 out of 10 pieces of mail in their ... Read More

I added a few short articles to a new section under Secure Your Wi-Fi Network called Quick Tips. Wireless networks continue to pop up everywhere and have become the network ... Read More