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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Hacking Devices – Ensuring your printer is secure
November 20, 2009 – 11:39 am | No Comment
Hacking Devices – Ensuring your printer is secure

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 …

Hacking Devices – How to protect yourself from data theft
November 19, 2009 – 2:50 pm | No Comment
Hacking Devices – How to protect yourself from data theft

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 …

How to Delete Windows Patch Install Folders in Vista
November 12, 2009 – 6:04 pm | No Comment
How to Delete Windows Patch Install Folders in Vista

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 …

compiled from source = bad security practice
November 6, 2009 – 11:44 am | No Comment
compiled from source = bad security practice

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 …

How to prevent Virtual Theft
November 5, 2009 – 2:59 pm | 2 Comments
How to prevent Virtual Theft

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 …

Search Engines, Friend or Foe?
October 30, 2009 – 3:02 pm | 2 Comments
Search Engines, Friend or Foe?

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, …

Protecting against Money Theft
October 29, 2009 – 2:29 pm | No Comment
Protecting against Money Theft

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 …

Security vs. Productivity in the Workplace
October 27, 2009 – 3:41 pm | No Comment
Security vs. Productivity in the Workplace

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 …

Copy and Paste is not working on my Remote Desktop Connection… what’s wrong?
October 26, 2009 – 3:06 pm | 8 Comments
Copy and Paste is not working on my Remote Desktop Connection… what’s wrong?

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 …

The Dangers of Social Networking
October 22, 2009 – 2:53 pm | 4 Comments
The Dangers of Social Networking

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 …