Keeping Vista Secure
Monday December 29, 2008
The holiday shopping season has come and gone. Frankly, given the state of the economy I expected to see better deals. I checked every week since Halloween to see when ... Read More
How Is Data Compromised? Let Us Count The Ways
Tuesday December 23, 2008
Money may be hard to come by in this economy, especially during the holiday season, but there is one thing that is never in short supply as a year comes ... Read More
Poll: What Is Your Operating System?
Monday December 22, 2008
Good, bad, or indifferent, it seems like 2008 was the year of Windows Vista. Windows Vista was subject to much criticism. Some of it was legitimate. Much of it was ... Read More
Firefox Issues Security Update...Mostly
Monday December 22, 2008
Firefox 3 has been around for about 6 months, but there are still holdouts that are using Firefox 2. Last week an update was released for Firefox, version 2.0.0.19. The ... Read More
2009 Information Security Predictions...Not
Sunday December 21, 2008
Can you predict the future? I won't say that I think it is entirely impossible, but I will say that I am pretty sure that if someone did have such ... Read More
U.S. Unprepared for Cyber Attack (...Again...Still)
Friday December 19, 2008
This is one of those annual or bi-annual posts that seems to stay perpetually the same. Even before 9/11 the United States was conducting exercises to determine how well government ... Read More
New Microsoft Update to Address Internet Explorer Vulnerability
Wednesday December 17, 2008
As predicted in the regular monthly Security Bulletins summary earlier this month, Microsoft has issued a supplemental update just for Internet Explorer. The good news is that the additional Security ... Read More
Mac OS X Upgrade Crashing Systems
Wednesday December 17, 2008
There is some trouble in paradise. Apple Mac users who have downloaded and applied the latest operating system update are reporting a range of issues from trivial or minor inconveniences, ... Read More
Used Devices For Sale (Data Included)
Monday December 15, 2008
One of the things we go through each year in our house starting around October is to purge un-used and unnecessary items to make room for all the awesome new ... Read More
Internet Explorer Plagued By Zero-Day Exploit
Saturday December 13, 2008
Although this past week was the final Patch Tuesday for 2008, and Microsoft released 8 Security Bulletins, including a Critical cumulative update for Internet Explorer, Users of Internet Explorer are ... Read More
Microsoft Security Bulletins for December
Friday December 12, 2008
We have our final count. The total number of Microsoft Security Bulletins for 2008 is 77 (barring any Critical Security Bulletins that might be rushed out between now and December ... Read More
Security Apps for iPhone / iPod Touch
Friday December 12, 2008
Do you have an iPhone? How about an iPod Touch? My wife was anti-iPhone craze. Then she suddenly decided she had to have one. So, we got one. She liked ... Read More
Survey Finds Internet Explorer with Fewest Bugs
Friday December 12, 2008
In a recent survey testers compared Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, Google Chrome Beta 3, and Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 and found that Internet Explorer 8 had fewer bugs ... Read More
Apple Recommends Mac Users Install Antimalware
Tuesday December 2, 2008
Remember how the Mac OS is a fortress of security and impervious to all potential malware attacks? Well, not so much any more. Apple now officially recommends that Mac users ... Read More
