Secunia released a number of Highly Critical security advisories on Wednesday. There were 9 in all. A few are from different *Nix vendors releasing their updates to address vulnerabilities in ... Read More

There were three Highly Critical vulnerabilities from Secunia on July 26. Netscape has multiple vulnerabilities and there was also a patch for kopete from Gentoo and a vulnerability with Atomic ... Read More

Voice Over IP (VoIP) is a relatively new concept, but one that has exploded recently in popularity for both residential and commerical telecommunications. Home users and companies have a hard ... Read More

There are a couple updates for kdenetwork and Mozilla still trickling in. Of the four Highly Critical Secunia Advisories today, there is an update for kdenetwork from Fedora and Slackware ... Read More

The latest update in the Free Tools section is the port scanner software. I removed the link to the Ecora product and fixed the link to the Shields Up! web ... Read More

Secunia issues four Advisories for July 22 that were rated as Highly Critical or higher. Three of them are from Redhat and deal with issues related to Mozilla, Thunderbird and ... Read More

Ira Winkler has made a living by exploiting weaknesses in both technical and physical security to compromise and infiltrate seemingly impenetrable network security defenses. In Spies Among Us, Winkler provides ... Read More

There are seven vulnerablities rated with a criticality of High for July 21. Some of them relate to updates from Linux distribution vendors to fix flaws in the Firefox web ... Read More

The CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) certification from (ISC)2 is one of the most respected and coveted certifications in the information security industry. The CISSP certification requires that you ... Read More

This is a quick tip providing an overview of Unix and Linux file and directory access rights. It covers the three types of access available and explains how to use ... Read More

There were two vulnerabilities rated Highly Critical or higher that were published by Secunia on July 19. One is CaLogic "CLPATH" Arbitrary File Inclusion Vulnerability and the other is Race ... Read More

A vulnerability has been discovered by Tom Ferris, aka badpack3t, at Security-Protocols.com which can crash the Windows operating system and cause a potential denial of service (DoS) condition. Rated as ... Read More

It has been a while since I have done the daily updating of Secunia Advisories. It is a tedious project to stay on top of. However, it is important for ... Read More

The Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC), which includes companies such as AOL, Computer Associates, Dell, EarthLink, F-Secure Corporation, HP, Lavasoft, McAfee Inc., Microsoft, Panda Software, Symantec, Trend Micro, Webroot Software, Yahoo! and ... Read More

Wireless networks continue to spread like wildfire, but understanding the security issues surrounding wireless networks and how to protect wireless networks from being compromised lags woefully behind. There are free ... Read More

I am working on updating the Free Tools section to add new tools that have come out since the listings were originally posted and remove products that are no longer ... Read More

Behind the viruses, worms, phishing scams and spyware lurks a different sort of ominous and insidious threat. In Silence On The Wire, Michael Zalewski digs deep to provide detailed information ... Read More

Microsoft only released three Security Bulletins for the month of July, but all three of them are rated as Critical by Microsoft. Two of the three vulnerabilities already have existing ... Read More

A college education has many benefits, but for many trying to get started in information security a college degree won't open the door. To validate knowledge specific to information security, ... Read More

Some people think that malware writers and malicious computer attackers sit around sifting through computer code looking for new and creative ways to exploit and compromise their systems. Security researchers ... Read More

Identity theft is on the rise. More often than not though, the techniques used by attackers to gather information are far less technical than hollywood or the 6 'o clock ... Read More

Have you ever received a pop-up ad on your computer that looked like an official notification from Windows that your computer appears to be infected with spyware? Trustsoft, makers of ... Read More

With whiz bang tools and technology being introduced all the time, and fancy techniques to learn and implement to secure your computer or network, it is easy to lose sight ... Read More

Researchers at Austrian security consulting firm SEC Consult, have discovered a flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser. Microsoft has confirmed that the vulnerability could lead to crashing the browser ... Read More