Keystroke loggers are a particularly dangerous security threat because users typically don’t realize they’re even there. Learn about the different versions of keystroke loggers, and get tips for protecting your organization and your users from this threat. More and more people have made the switch to using the Internet for personal tasks — online bill [...]
Once every couple months or so, I find myself explaining to someone that the flood of viruses everyone has come to expect is not an unavoidable side effect of an increasingly networked world. Usually this comes up in response to the all-too-common security through obscurity argument that Linux systems would suffer the same frequency of [...]
According to Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.com) Malware is defined as follows: “Malware is software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner’s informed consent. It is a portmanteau of the words “malicious” and “software”. The expression is a general term used by computer professionals to mean a variety of forms of hostile, intrusive, or [...]
I recently hit, by mistake, what I thought was an Explorer upgrade option. It turned out to be a pop-up appearing legitimate but really was not. It uploaded a product called Intelligent Explorer on my machine. What a nightmare! I did some research on the web and found messages like this one from a BullGuard [...]
There is a lot going on in the information security space. 2006 looks to be an interesting year in these regards. Below are some things to watch for in 2006, some of them are good and, unfortunately, some aren’t. First the good news: We are getting a lot more serious about our security. This has [...]
