For the most part anti-spyware has been merged into larger security suites. The distinction between various threats has become primarily a technical debate. The reality is that many of the ... Read More

Do you use Ad-Aware, or have you used Ad-Aware in the past? If you're like 350 million other users, then odds are good you have used some version of Ad-Aware ... Read More

Monster.com, the popular job-searching web site, has reported that attackers were able to compromise the Monster.com database and gain access to user information. With the job market in a freefall ... Read More

The Waledec worm has a history of preying on current or upcoming events. There was a version targeting Christmas, another version leveraging the popularity of Barack Obama, and now the ... Read More

If there is a hole in your computer security, but only you are aware of it (as far as you know), does that mean you are secure? The 'Security by ... Read More

Passwords are the keys to a vast majority of systems and applications. Two-factor and biometric authentication continue to grow as more secure authentication mechanisms, but for those still relying on ... Read More

Barack Obama has been on the job for less than a week, but he has already gotten right down to business addressing terrorism, international affairs, domestic affairs, and more. One ... Read More

Back in September of 2008 Google entered the web browser arena with the Beta release of their new Chrome browser. On the Google Chrome web site, this explanation is posted ... Read More

Windows provides pretty good security when it comes to protecting the data on your computer. You can restrict access and require a username and password so that only you are ... Read More

Is it karma? What do you call it when someone downloads software from a peer-to-peer network that they know is illegally pirated and that software turns out to be a ... Read More

The world came to a stand still on Tuesday for Inauguration Day. Millions lined the National Mall in Washington DC. Tens of millions of viewers across the United States and ... Read More

Leave your credit cards at home. But, if you are looking for some bargains today is your day. Just announced yesterday, TJX is holding a one-day "Customer Appreciation Day" promotion ... Read More

When the economy is in a downward spiral, almost 3 million people are without jobs, home foreclosures set a new record on a monthly basis, and millions more people can ... Read More

Do you use NMap? If you don't, you are either new to IT or you're probably doing something wrong. NMap is a port scanner, but that really just scratches the ... Read More

Millions of computers around the world are already compromised by the Win32/Conficker.B worm (also known as W32.Downadup or just Downadup). The majority of the infected PC's are in China, Argentina, ... Read More

You have probably heard that Elvis is still alive, or that Hitler escaped to Argentina. Maybe you are familiar with pop-star Michael Jackson buying the remains of the Elephant Man ... Read More

Microsoft says Happy New Year! To celebrate, they started the year off slowly with only one Security Bulletin for the month of January. MS09-001 is a Critical Security Bulletin that ... Read More

It was big news when security researchers recently announced that they had broken SSL. If you are not a securiy researcher, or at least an information security professional, you might ... Read More

Do you 'tweet'? That is the term used for individual posts or comments on the social networking site Twitter. You can check out 'What is Twitter' from the About.com Guide ... Read More

When you're preparing for a certification exam you can never have too many tools. Hands on experience is always the best teacher. Taking classes, whether at a physical location or ... Read More

Two recent studies have concluded that a majority of teens tend to exhibit risky behaviors on MySpace. According to this Yahoo! Tech article, "54 percent of the publicly available accounts ... Read More

Do you have a Microsoft Zune? It is a solid competitor in the music player market, but it fares about as well against Apple in the music player arena as ... Read More

A few weeks back I mentioned an iPhone App called SplashID that can be used to secure and protect personal data on your iPhone or iPod Touch. I have since ... Read More