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From Tony Bradley, CISSP-ISSAP, for About.com

Video: How To Create A Secure Password

Friday November 30, 2007
Passwords are the keys to the proverbial kingdom for most sites, services, and applications. While emerging authentication methods such as smartcards, and fingerprint scanners, or other biometric authentication methods continue ... Read More

LAN Switch Security: What Hackers Don't Want You To Know

Friday November 30, 2007
Your organization has invested in a variety of security tools and technologies. You have server-level antivirus running on your mail server, and client-level antivirus on your desktops. You have a ... Read More

Poll Results: Top 3 Security Products

Thursday November 29, 2007
What does it take to protect a home computer? If you could only have three security products installed to secure your computer against malware, malicious attacks, and other threats, what ... Read More

Hackers Ready For Holiday Shopping Season

Friday November 23, 2007
Are you ready for the holidays? Is your home decorated? I know much of America is still coming down from their Thanksgiving comas, induced by a perfect storm of tryptophan, ... Read More

Reader Poll: Vote For Your Top 3 Security Products

Wednesday November 21, 2007
There are always product surveys and opinion polls. Almost every tech publication has some sort of "Top 5" or "Product Of The Year" list as the year comes to a ... Read More

Major Security Update for Mac OS

Friday November 16, 2007
Apple has released a major update for the various versions of the Mac OS, including Leopard, Tiger, Panther and any other members of the large cat family they may have ... Read More

VoIP Flaw Poses a Security Risk

Friday November 16, 2007
Has your organization upgraded to the world of VoIP communications? Are you using VoIP for your home telephone service? VoIP has been a hot technology for a while now, and ... Read More

Survey Finds Retail Wireless Networks Insecure

Friday November 16, 2007
If the results of a recent study by AirDefense are to be believed, every time you use your credit card at a retail store you run a 50/50 chance that ... Read More

Microsoft Releases Two Security Bulletins for November

Tuesday November 13, 2007
It is a slow month for Security Bulletins from Microsoft this month. It is a good thing too, since Microsoft is continuing to have issues with WSUS, the mechanism used ... Read More

Only Two Security Bulletins Predicted

Friday November 9, 2007
Next Tuesday is the monthly Security Bulletin and patch release day for Microsoft for the month of November. According to their Security Bulletin Advance Notification, there will only be two ... Read More

Importance of Physical Security

Friday November 9, 2007
Firewalls, antivirus, antispyware, intrusion detection, and other information security technologies are great, but there is more to protecting your data than just the digital security side. You can't forget about ... Read More

Dangers of Social Networking

Friday November 9, 2007
Do you have a MySpace profile? Have you ever searched for items to buy on Craiglist? Do you share or view photos on sites like Flickr? It is almost a ... Read More

TJX Debacle- Double Or Nothing

Friday November 2, 2007
At the beginning of this year it was revealed that customer data at retail giant TJX had been stolen or compromised. As more news came out, TJX ascended to the ... Read More

Trojan Targets Mac OS X

Friday November 2, 2007
Have you noticed the rising popularity of Apple? The Mac OS has always had a small, yet fanatical following. In recent years though, Apple introduced the iPod, a leading portable ... Read More

What Is Your Data Worth...To You?

Friday November 2, 2007
Have you ever left your car unlocked and thought "my car isn't very valuable, who would want to take it?" Perhaps that is the wrong way to think about it. ... Read More
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