Coming up on the second anniversary of Security For All (no, this is not THAT entry – it’s coming) I realize that I’ve been remiss about the “For All” part of Security For All. Lately it’s been all about copyright enforcement shenanigans, e-discovery technicalities, Fourth Amendment, privacy issues and Captain X-Ploit parables and nary a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘malware’
Email advice for the rest of us
Posted: August 30, 2010 in general, professional, securityTags: email, malware, non-technical users, phishing, SAFE EMAIL, spam, webmail
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Gray haired computing part 3
Posted: December 2, 2009 in general, securityTags: botnet, email, mail, malware, phishing, pwned, senior citizen, senior computing, senior netizen, spam
In part 1 of this series we talked about finding the right computer system and decried the lack of availability of such systems. In part 2 we talked about how to get connected with friends and family when access to a computer system is impossible or impractical. So in this part we’ll start from the [...]
The pirate you know…
Posted: November 4, 2009 in general, professional, securityTags: file-sharing sites, malware, McAfee Q3 Threats report, The Pirate Bay
Steve Ragan over at The Tech Herald reports a most curious situation in this post wherein the attempted closure of The Pirate Bay [don't worry the link is to Wikipedia, not TPB] is having some unintended side effects. The number of new file-sharing sites hosting pirated copyrighted content skyrocketed over the last three months, according to [...]
Security For All First Birthday: Revisiting Using public Wi-Fi safely
Posted: September 8, 2009 in general, professional, securityTags: anti-virus, file sharing, firewall, malware, open wi-fi, wi-fi, wifi
Number 2 with a bullet on the First Annual Security For All Hit List was a surprise [to me anyway]. This post on March 16, 2009 titled Using public Wi-Fi safely was a review/amplification of this article by Rich Vázquez. So I came up with this great idea that I would do another review/amplification on [...]
Do not fall for this
Posted: March 20, 2009 in general, professional, securityTags: Comcast, malware, MX Lab, rootkit
The folks over at MX Lab wrote this blog entry about a particularly nasty malware site they discovered recently. When checking some URLs at MX Lab this one caught our attention because it is a nice trick to distribute malware. The trick is to attract people that want high speed internet for free. Don’t we [...]
Using public Wi-Fi safely
Posted: March 16, 2009 in general, professional, securityTags: anti-virus, file sharing, firewall, malware, open wi-fi, wi-fi, wifi
Rich Vázquez, a fellow CISSP, has an article in the Georgetown Hutto/Taylor by way of Community Impact Newspaper entitled Ways to use public Wi-Fi safely. While generally good advice I feel compelled to, if not disagree exactly, elaborate of some of his statements. So here goes. The first thing to do in a public space [...]
Security ideas for your mom revisited
Posted: October 12, 2008 in general, professional, securityTags: anti-virus, Bitlocker, del.icio.us, facebook, firewall, full disk encryption, Gibson Research, GRC, malware, MySpace, NAT router, password manager, personally identifiable information, PII, sandbox, Sandboxie, security suite, strong passwords, TrueCrypt, VaultletSuite 2 Go, Virtualization, Web 2.0, wireless access points
Information security for everyone is a big deal with me. I even have a weblog devoted to that very ideal. So Julie Seedorf’s Something About Nothing article, “Be careful of what you store on computers” definitely resonated with me. I read an article from PC Magazine recently. It was titled “Day in the Life of [...]
DRM is a security threat
Posted: September 27, 2008 in general, professional, securityTags: Alone in the Dark, antipiracy, Atari, Ben Yahtzee, bittorrent, computer games, Digital Rights Management, DRM, EA, Electronic Arts, malware, MediaDefender, Nick Webster, open source, p2p, Revision3, security threat, SecuROM, software, software cracks, software piracy, Spore, warez
For my entire career I’ve designed, developed, maintained and secured commercial software products. So it is definitely not lost on me that the revenue generated by sales of those software products is what pays my bills. If customers don’t pony up then my employers quit paying me. So believe me, I’m certainly not advocating that [...]
