After talking about mobile phones as a threat to your organization we will today discuss yet another device widely in use and that too has the potential of being misused in a way that can …

Some time ago I wrote an article about preventing virtual theft – theft of goods from a virtual world (such as a game) by compromising the machine from which you play the game – and …

After installing Windows Patches the user may find strange looking folders (with names that are hexadecimal numbers, i.e. only letters a-z and 0-9) at the top level of a drive.  Some of these folders are …

Today I saw a ‘how-to’ of what is supposed to be the ‘perfect server‘ setup. Well, the ‘perfect’ was not meant literally, but the setup is in fact very nice – from a functional point …

We have talked a lot about theft in the real world so I guess it is about time we also discuss theft in virtual world. The BBC reported that some Trojan software are now targeting Online …

Security is all about identifying threats and provisioning for them before your enemy exploits that threat. There are so many vectors to take care of that it truly is a daunting task.
Input validation, perimeter control, …

Time and time again we read stories about malicious people using Trojans to steal money. This time it happened to Cumberland County Redevelopment Authority where, by using a Trojan, a malicious hacker stole nearly half …

Conventional wisdom has always told us that when it comes to deciding what users should be allowed to do, the correct choice would be to allow access only to what they need to do, or …

A very annoying occurrence that I sometimes suffer is when all of a sudden the copy and paste function stops working when I am connected to a remote machine. Turns out the problem is coming …

Social sites such as Facebook and MySpace are a big hit nowadays; not just with the young generation but with people of all ages. It’s an amazing platform for people to connect but it certainly …