After I blogged about the Free Wifi 101 course available on this site last week, participation in the course spiked up significantly. Thousands of new users have started viewing this ... Read More

Windows is capable of keeping tabs on a variety of events. You can track and log when user accounts login or when there are failed login attempts. You can track ... Read More

When you create and modify files in Microsoft Office products, the changes, comments and other information are tracked and recorded in the background. When you send a document to another ... Read More

Viruses remain as one of the most commonly known threats to computer security, but the threat from viruses seems to be getting eclipsed by the threat of spyware and phishing ... Read More

I just got back from vacation. While I was away at a technology-challenged cabin in northern Michigan, I struggled to find a functional wireless connection to access the real world. ... Read More

Using a concept called "Fuzzing" created by HD Moore, co-founder of the Metasploit Project, vulnerability researchers have been able to greatly reduce the amount of time it takes to discover ... Read More

Microsoft released a total of seven new Security Bulletins for July. Two of them are ranked as Important, while the other five are rated as Critical. All five of the ... Read More

Many of the features that make using an application or operating system more convenient also represent convenient methods for attacks to occur. It was discovered that with Windows XP and ... Read More

This isn't the type of milestone where you get a cake and ice cream, like a birthday, or the kind of milestone where you get a gold-plated pen, like a ... Read More

Many users have become wise to normal phishing tactics. They know not to email their personal information or click on links from within suspicious emails. A new phishing attack plays ... Read More

I'll let you in on a little secret that most security software and hardware vendors don't want you to know. It is possible to protect your computer without spending more ... Read More

Being a security-savvy computer user, I know that you have antivirus software, anti-spyware software, a personal firewall and spam filtering on your computer. Of course, you make sure that they ... Read More

Gerald Combs, creator of the Ethereal Protocol Analyzer, has accepted a position with CACE, makers of the WinPcap library. The core development team of Ethereal have joined with Combs to ... Read More