I received a notice today that the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is no longer going to allow private registration of .US domain names. I am not affected because ... Read More

If I leave my keys in my car and the door unlocked and the car gets stolen, whose fault is it? The keys for being there? The door for being ... Read More

It's that time of year again. Two days from now is April 1st, otherwise known as April Fool's Day. As a child, the day typically meant a lot of silly ... Read More

People know better than to share sensitive, personal information with strangers. There have been enough identity theft horror stories and network security breaches for users to be aware that they ... Read More

Spyware seemed to skyrocket quickly from minor annoyance to malware epidemic. The vendors of security and anti-spyware applications seem to be playing catch-up still with an enemy that elusively stays ... Read More

Home networks are increasingly being targeted by all sorts of attacks and malware. According to David Dittrich's article, Invasion Force, in the March issue of Information Security Magazine, millions of ... Read More

Admittedly, I am late to the party when it comes to The Da Vinci Code. There have already been multiple TV specials investigating the research Brown did and the depictions ... Read More

A user on the Internet / Network Security forums wrote with an issue regarding Internet security and privacy. Someone contacted him and claimed to be able to derive the physical ... Read More

Home networking equipment, particularly wireless network equipment, is designed to be simple to install and start using. It succeeds in that goal, but if you simply plug it in and ... Read More

Hard drive space is relatively cheap and data, almost any data, is priceless. Corporations save more and more data today and there are certain considerations which need to be kept ... Read More

Along the same lines as the last post where I recommended that you perform ethical hacking, or penetration tests, of your own network in order to really understand where the ... Read More

You can deploy any number of network and host based security technologies to protect your network. Firewalls, intrusion detection or prevention (IDS / IPS), antivirus, spyware defense, etc., etc.. Each ... Read More

Wireless networks are very popular these days. Estimates suggest that as many as 10 million homes now have wireless networks installed. Unfortunately, a large number of those 10 million are ... Read More

I am sure that a wide range of activities and technologies are deployed on an annual basis within the federal government's computer security infrastructure. But, from the standpoint of what ... Read More

Following the tip I just posted to Google Yourself To Identify Security Holes, this book will help you understand just how big those security holes might be. Johnny Long walks ... Read More

Google, and other Web search engines, do a great job of seeking out and cataloging every last bit of data that is possibly accessible from a web browser. The down ... Read More

There has been a re-emergence of the purist form of hacking. From Bunnie Huang's book, Hacking The Xbox, to the series of Hacks books from O'Reilly publishing, more and more ... Read More

I have long been a fan of the desktop search tool. I live and die by X1 for finding data on my computer. I have written about the security risks, ... Read More

Yes, I know that this past Tuesday, March 8, was the monthly Security Bulletin release day for Microsoft. Lest you think I simply forgot or missed a reminder or something, ... Read More

Calicoe wrote in the Internet / Network Security Forums to say: "I have 5 networked PC's and one of them is constantly coming up with viruses. It's also the only one ... Read More

Computer security is a fairly serious issue most of the time, but this PC World article takes a more humorous approach. Written in 'biblical style" to paraphrase the actual Ten ... Read More

An attacker typically wants as much control over the target system as possible. Ideally, accessing the computer with the privileges of the Administrator account is the best bet because they ... Read More

User Marko654 wrote the following post in the Internet / Network Security forums: I'm very new to wireless networking and know next to nothing about it. That said, I just moved ... Read More

The free CISSP training course from TechTarget's SearchSecurity.com site is complete now. There is a lesson for each of the ten domains or CBK's (core bodies of knowledge) of the ... Read More

One of the great things about About.com is that the sites are more than just news and information, they also provide a community for users to share and learn from ... Read More

SearchSecurity, a TechTarget site, has posted the 9th of their 10 lessons in their free CISSP training series. The lesson, hosted by Shon Harris, includes a webcast and some study ... Read More

A network protocol analyzer, more commonly referred to as a "packet sniffer" is a valuable tool for network administrators. Using information collected with a packet sniffer can provide key information ... Read More

If you have traveled, or better yet lived, outside of the United States, you have probably gotten the idea that Americans are disliked in many areas of the world. It ... Read More

One of the questions that companies often ask themselves is whether to secure and protect their network using their own personnel and in-house equipment, or to outsource that task to ... Read More

There are plenty of security threats facing consumers and businesses that use the Internet. Just to do some simple research on the Web or send an email or two requires ... Read More