With hard drive space so cheap, it is easy to just save every little file and piece of information you ever had. The problem is finding it again. To make ... Read More

A user in the Internet / Network Security Forums appears to be having an issue with spam messages which use the Windows Messenger Service to infiltrate your system. Timmonie writes: ... Read More

There are some things about network and computer security which change over time, sometimes very rapidly over a very short period of time. For instance, two years ago "phishing" was ... Read More

Choicepoint. Lexis Nexis. DSW Shoe Warehouse. Bank of America. The list goes on. It seems that almost weekly a major compromise of consumer data has been announced. While some feel ... Read More

There has been a fair amount of discussion over the years about whether or not an employer can snoop, or monitor, what their employees do on the company network. Can ... Read More

Rootkits have been around for a long while in the Unix world, but the Microsoft Windows operating systems have been more or less spared from these stealth attacks. I wrote ... Read More

Many companies consider intrusion detection or prevention to be a more or less mandatory component of a solid, layered security solution. There are different methods for monitoring intrusions. You can ... Read More

I warned you last week that the vacation was over. Microsoft did not release any new Security Bulletins or patch any new vulnerabilities in March, but for yesterday's April patch ... Read More

Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema have written a very good book on the topic of computer forensic investigations. On the back cover of the book Richard Bejtlich, technical director, ManTech ... Read More

I hope you enjoyed having the month off because April will not be so kind. Microsoft has announced that they have 8 new patches in the works for next Tuesday's ... Read More

Sometimes, even when you try to be secure and you run updated antivirus software, some malware still slips by. Some viruses are relatively easy to remove, but some are exceptionally ... Read More

Since the PATRIOT Act was passed in 2001 immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States, there has been a tremendous amount of debate about it. At the ... Read More

It is very difficult to protect assets that you aren't even aware of. It is also exceptionally difficult to track down an infected machine or find the source of a ... Read More