Security

Celebrate International Kill-A-Zombie Day

Beware of Halloween tricks

The bad guys love to trick people into downloading their malicious garbage and will use just about any tactics to do so. It's Halloween season, so people will be searching for all kinds of scary stuff to decorate, dress up and generally celebrate the creepy. The hackers know this and have started...

Why you should stop posting these five things on Facebook

If you’re not already a member of MakeUseOf, I highly suggest you join. They have a wealth of information that can make your lives and jobs easier. Today’s tip comes from a MakeUseOf email I just received. These are

Patch Tuesday – two critical vulnerabilities

Tuesday, October...

Three years later and Conficker is still going strong

Real dialogue about real password ideas

We have a Skype room called the International Internet Marketing Group where we discuss various topics related to Internet Marketing. Last night, we had a discussion, which I led, about passwords and online security. Here's an excerpt:

EVERYBODY here needs to LEARN this stuff...

The information thief’s greatest asset – You

Here is an excellent video about information...

Five ways to prevent data leakage

Data leakage? What's that, you ask? Well, it's a growing security issue which has at its root, the explosive proliferation of mobile and portable devices and the exponential growth of social networking tools, instant messaging, and external storage devices. Simply defined, data leakage is...

Beware of Mebromi rootkit

This snippet from SANS NewsBites Vol. 13, No. 74, 16 September 2011:

Researchers have detected a rootkit that targets the BIOS, Master Boot Record (MBR), the kernel, and files of PCs. It has been at least four years since malware that focuses on BIOS has been found. Trojan.Mebromi adds...

Password-related Definitions

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued a draft of Special Publication 800-118 entitled "Guide to Enterprise Password Management" that I have been using to help our corporate IT folks...