Foundstone's FPort is a free utility you can use to identify unknown, open ports and map them to the applications that are using them. This can be valuable for troubleshooting ... Read More

'Bots' and 'zombies' are discussed frequently these days. Many computer magazines, Web sites and other news sources continue to talk about the "army" of zombie computers lying dormant and ready ... Read More

Still sorting the books out to make them easier to locate by subject as we enter the 2005 holiday shopping season. This week I created two new categories of book ... Read More

Computer Security: 20 Things Every Employee Should Know (2nd Edition) by Ben Rothke is a concise, but informative book that can be used as a self-contained security awareness program for ... Read More

Some users are overwhelmed by the sheer number of passwords they have to create and keep track of. Some require at least 8 characters while some have a maximum of ... Read More

To help you find the books you are looking for, particularly as we enter the 2005 holiday season, I am adding new categories under the Book Reviews section of the ... Read More

I have not yet had a chance to review the entire contents of this book, but here is an excerpt from the book Data Protection and Information Lifecycle Management by ... Read More

Vulnerabilities are discovered virtually every day in the operating systems and applications we use. Exploits are created to take advantage of those vulnerabilities as fast as we can get the ... Read More

After giving you the month of September off, Microsoft is coming back strong in October with a total of 9 new Security Bulletins. Two of them are rated as Moderate, ... Read More

Over the weekend, a 7.6 magnitude earthquake leveled entire villages in the Kashmir region of Pakistan. More than 2.5 million people have been rendered homeless and the estimates of the ... Read More

Computers become obsolete fairly quickly as newer, faster and more powerful equipment comes out for a fraction of the cost. But, what do you do with that old computer when ... Read More

A vulnerability was identified in Kaspersky's antivirus library which could allow an attacker to execute malicious code on a vulnerable system without any user intervention whatsoever. Because of the component ... Read More

Tomorrow is the second Tuesday in October and that means it is Microsoft's monthly Security Bulletin release day. According to their pre-release announcement last week, we can look forward to ... Read More

Last week there were a few announcements that rocked the world of open source, particularly open source network security software. Renaud Deraison, primary author of Nessus and Chief Research Officer ... Read More

While the most common targets of exploits and malware tend to be operating systems or major applications such as web browsers, just about anything that executes could potentially be an ... Read More

It is generally recommended that you review your credit report on a regular basis to ensure that no erroneous information appears and to identify any attempts at fraud so that ... Read More