Computer Security Day: Protecting Laptops Quiz
Monday November 27, 2006
This is the second of five short quizzes created by Symantec's Luis Navarro, a Sr. Consultant with their Security Awareness Practice. Computer Security Day is this Thursday, November 30. Take ... Read More
Computer Security Day: Password Protection Quiz
Monday November 27, 2006
Computer Security Day is November 30. It is a day designated to highlight security issues and raise awareness. To help test your basic computer security knowledge, Luis Navarro, Sr. Consultant, ... Read More
Checkpoint Bids To Buy Pointsec
Monday November 20, 2006
Checkpoint, known for their firewall products and the popular Zone Alarm personal firewall software, has put in a bid to purchase Protect Data, parent company of Pointsec Mobile Technologies. Pointsec ... Read More
November Security Bulletins From Microsoft
Saturday November 18, 2006
For November, Microsoft released 6 new Security Bulletins, bringing the cumulative total for the year to 71. One of them, MS06-066, was rated as Important, while the other five were ... Read More
Starbucks Latest In High-Profile Laptop Loss
Monday November 13, 2006
Once again a laptop, or in this case four laptops, have come up missing. This time it is Starbucks, the ubiquitous coffee shop, which is reporting the loss which contains ... Read More
Microsoft Predicts 6 Bulletins For Patch Tuesday
Monday November 13, 2006
Tomorrow is "Patch Tuesday" for the month of November. According to the Security Bulletin Advance Notification from Microsoft, users and administrators can expect 6 new Security Bulletins. One, rated as ... Read More
Educate Yourself To Be More Secure
Sunday November 5, 2006
Tools and technology are great. It is nice to know that you can use antivirus to block malware, a firewall to keep out unauthorized users, spam-blocking utilities to keep your ... Read More
Gartner Analyst: Good Enough May Be Just Fine
Sunday November 5, 2006
Security is maturing to the point where the products are more of a commodity than a specialty. Companies have invested large budgets in procuring and deploying best-of-breed technologies, but a ... Read More
'Hacking Democracy' Highlights Controversy Over Electronic Voting
Sunday November 5, 2006
Electronic voting sounds good on the surface. Why use confusing paper ballots or risk the issues from the 2000 election with the 'hanging chad', when you can just use simple ... Read More
