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 | from Tony Bradley, your Editor and Guide For those in the United States- welcome back from the Independence Day holiday weekend! As of last Tuesday, July 1, the front page of the site has been changed to a blog format. This allows me as a Guide to do more frequent updates easier and to link to external content to provide better value for visitors. One of the hot new trends is RSS (Rich Site Summary). RSS is a form of XML langauge that allows for easy syndicated web feeds. In plain English you can use a tool like the free product FeedReader and subscribe to various feeds and receive the news and content you want about the subjects you want delivered to your desktop at the intervals you want. To find web feeds to subscribe to you can use a site like Syndic8.com and search for the subjects that interest you. You can then add those feeds to FeedReader and you're in business. This can also be an effective tool for keeping up to date with the new blog style entries on this site. You can subscribe to the About.com Internet / Network Security RSS feed and receive automatic updates to let you know when there is new content available on the site. Check out the articles below including a discussion of the terms "hacker" vs. "cracker" and a debate about whether or not corporations should be required to disclose security breaches. Lastly, be sure to revisit the Computer Security 101 area and take the quizzes for each lesson. Quizzes 1 through 6 are posted with more to come. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| What Is In a Name? A hacker by any other name will still cause havoc. Hacker purists insist that hacking is a form of benevolent curiosity and that the term should not be associated with cyber-terrorists and cyber-criminals who steal credit cards and deface web...read more |
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| To Disclose Or Not To Disclose Companies traditionally like to keep security breaches quiet because they don't want the negative publicity to affect their customer trust or their stock value. The Bush Administration and the Department of Homeland Security want to exempt corporations from the US Freedom of Information Act to persuade them to disclose information about security incidents without fear of the public finding out. Senator Feinstein has introduced a bill that would require corporations that are hacked to notify customers if certain personal or confidential information is compromised. Should companies disclose such information or not? |
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| Computer Security 101 - Lesson 5 & 6 Quizzes Computer Security 101 is a 10-part series of lessons designed for novice or beginning computer and Internet users. Each lesson introduces technology and terminology that are common to computer and network security so that users can become familiar with the terms and understand what needs to be protected and why. There are two new, quick 10-question quizzes to test your knowledge of Lesson 5 and Lesson 6. |
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