Security

Free Licenses for Some Good Security Software

I just got these in my email from http://techsupportalert.com (Gizmo's Freeware site) and figured I should pass them on. You can't beat free and these two programs are top-rated. Note that these are time limited offers.

A Serious (Not!) Intervention

Hey, tomorrow's Halloween, our annual celebration of all things dark and evil. This video, produced by security firm Comodo is hilarious, yet hides a rather dark truth--quite in the spirit of our creepy holiday.

The video pays homage to the popular...

Hacking Skills Challenge – Level 8

So...

Updating the Anti Virus Bootable Thumb Drive

My recent post, Convert Any Live CD to a Bootable Thumb Drive in Minutes, referred to the Kaspersky rescue CD as one possible...

Hacking Skills Challenge – Level 7

Once...

Acrobat Reader Users Should Switch to Foxit Reader, Shrink Their Attack Surface

I'm not going to rant, I promise--I don't have to because this doesn't affect me. Several years ago, I abandoned the bloated, insecure and extremely resource-intensive Acrobat Reader in favor of the smaller and more secure Foxit Reader....

Mozilla Disables Insecure Microsoft Firefox Add-on

When I fired up my laptop the other day, I was greeted with this pop-up box:

Trust Only https:// on Form Pages

How often, when you log into a site that requires a username and password, to you check to see if the connection is secure? You probably don't give it a second thought. Most people don't. For many sites, like newspapers, online magazines, etc., it probably doesn't matter much. Who cares if someone...

Free Encryption Tool for the Absentminded

Convert a USB Thumb Drive into a ROBAM

What's a ROBAM? you ask. Check out this post: Protecting Your Business from Online Banking Fraud. SANS says, "The number one recommended...