GFI WebMonitor 2009™ launches as stand-alone proxy version
November 3, 2009 – 1:55 pm | No Comment

GFI WebMonitor 2009™ is now available as a stand-alone proxy.
The perfect internet monitoring solution for the SMB market, this new version of GFI WebMonitor will work in most networking environments and allows administrators to manage …

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US SMBs fail to recognize security threats in the workplace
September 30, 2009 – 4:24 pm | No Comment
US SMBs fail to recognize security threats in the workplace

Results of a recent survey showed that nearly half of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the US do not have the means to monitor or filter Internet traffic and employees’ online activity. These figures …

Keeping your bank accounts safe from cybercriminals
September 30, 2009 – 11:24 am | No Comment
Keeping your bank accounts safe from cybercriminals

I have dealt with cyber crime in a number of previous posts, such as the 21st Century heists series. This post chronicles a recent event about some of the themes tackled in that series. Finjan has …

GFI MAX Around the World Competition closes tomorrow!
September 29, 2009 – 1:11 pm | 5 Comments
GFI MAX Around the World Competition closes tomorrow!

MAX has visited Greece, Sicily, Malta, London, and even the Moon during the month of September. All those people who sent in their MAX photos are in for the chance of winning a fantastic SONY …

DHL Delivery Problem NR.59544
September 28, 2009 – 11:11 am | 2 Comments
DHL Delivery Problem NR.59544

DHL Delivery Problem NR.59544
Another day, another example exposing the fragile human security in an organization. Malware writers and spammers greatly depend on disguising their payload as innocent messages or software, which may even pretend to …

Identity Theft
September 25, 2009 – 4:20 pm | No Comment
Identity Theft

A while ago I wrote a series of articles about theft in the modern age that provided an in-depth account on how malicious people were stealing using technology in the modern age.
I recently came across a very …

Note to Self!
September 24, 2009 – 9:28 am | No Comment
Note to Self!

I work in marketing (I think? Or I did and nobody has told me otherwise) for a Software Company. They provide software to help run IT Companies, or as they seem to be known (in …

Zero-day flaw in Microsoft Internet Information Service (IIS)
September 22, 2009 – 12:00 pm | 2 Comments
Zero-day flaw in Microsoft Internet Information Service (IIS)

Recent figures put Microsoft IIS as the second most popular web server on the internet, second only to the Apache HTTP Server. It is therefore of no surprise that following the Apache site breach on …

CSVDE – A Means to Simplify Active Directory Administration (Part 3)
September 17, 2009 – 3:07 pm | No Comment
CSVDE – A Means to Simplify Active Directory Administration (Part 3)

Importing Data from AD
In Part 2 we  discussed how to export data from a working Active Directory installation. That was the easy part, now the real fun begins as we discuss how to import data …

No MS09-048 patch for Windows XP and Windows 2000, what to do?
September 16, 2009 – 10:54 am | No Comment
No MS09-048 patch for Windows XP and Windows 2000, what to do?

On September 8th Microsoft released its usual set of patches. One particular issue CVE-2009-1926 affects all Microsoft Windows platforms except for Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2.However Microsoft neglected to issue a patch for the …

Donate for Byte Night 2009; support GFI UK and help Action for Children
September 15, 2009 – 10:28 am | No Comment
Donate for Byte Night 2009; support GFI UK and help Action for Children

Each year, over 500 IT and business community professionals give up their beds for one night to experience a little of what it might be like to be homeless on the streets of London. It …