One way to keep an intruder out of your house is to shut the door. Of course, if you also lock the door it will be that much harder for ... Read More

You're a good friend, right? So, if a friend of yours was in a bind and needed some money quickly you would do what you could to help out? What ... Read More

While UAC has gotten most of the attention during Windows Vista's tenure, the runner up for most discussed Windows Vista feature is probably BitLocker. It seems like a week doesn't ... Read More

Have you ever taken a look at how many wireless networks are accessible from your living room? You can probably see 4 or 5- your neighbor, your neighbor's neighbor, the ... Read More

A user posted a query in the Netsecurity Forums asking about ways to determine the actual source of incoming malicious connections. The post in the Forums provides some additional details ... Read More

Twitter is one of the more recent social networking phenomena. Following the sucess of social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, Twitter is a service that lets people follow each ... Read More

I dabbled in Twitter a while back. I created the account and did a 'tweet' or two. But, I quickly lost interest and moved on to other things. However, after ... Read More

The Conficker worm, A.K.A. Downadup, continues to plague users around the world. The worm exploits a vulnerability that Microsoft addressed in October of 2008 with an emergency Security Bulletin released ... Read More

A user (Clintontrux) posted an interesting topic in the Netsecurity Forums a while back. It has gotten a fair amount of traffic and feedback from other readers. Here is the ... Read More

In the past year or so there have been a number of examples of situations where a simple username and password have proven to be insufficient for security. During the ... Read More

Microsoft released four Security Bulletins today. Two of them are rated as Critical, and two of them are rated as Important. MS09-002 is a cumulative update for Internet Explorer that ... Read More

It is hard to believe that it has been almost 6 years since the founders of Foundstone (now a McAfee company) and authors of Hacking Exposed, George Kurtz and Stuart ... Read More

The User Account Control (UAC) feature of Windows Vista is one of the most misunderstood features in the history of Windows operating systems (comments are open and available for feedback ... Read More

Prevx isn't a household name in PC security the way McAfee, Trend Micro, or Symantec are. Actually, Prevx is arguably less well-known even than other less commercial security vendors such ... Read More

One of the most maligned features of Windows Vista has been UAC (User Account Control). While the purpose of UAC is primarily to enforce Least Privileged Access and encourage enterprises ... Read More