Accessories for Camera Surveillance

(Sat Nov 19th, 2005, by Kingston Y. amadan)

If you have camera surveillance to help protect your home, it is important to have the proper accessories to ensure that everything works in tip-top shape. When you have a good surveillance system, it is more than just cameras giving you a continuous...

Backing Up Your Stuff Part 7

(Tue Nov 15th, 2005, by Richard Lowe)

These items are all stored by the operating system in your system folder. On Windows 95, 98 and ME, this is generally called "WINDOWS", while on Windows 2000 and NT it is usually called either "WINNT" or "WINNT40" or something to that effect. When yo...

XSS Vulnerabilities, So understimated, so dangerous

(Mon Nov 14th, 2005, by Zinho)

In this little paper I will try to convince admins, webmaster and in general everyone is concerned to secure a web site of how dangerous can be a XSS hole. I will not cover in depth what XSS is because there's a huge library on this topic available o...

Real Life Internet Evil

(Mon Nov 14th, 2005, by Richard Lowe)

Our purpose with this series is to use real life examples of deception, fraud and other evil to show how you can better protect yourself. The examples cited in these articles are intended to demonstrate best practices and recommendations. What would ...

Spys in CyberWorld

(Mon Nov 14th, 2005, by Kim Haas)

Did you know your own computer is syping on you? Did you know that every click you make on your windows start menu is logged to a hidden, encrypted database in your computer? It's very important that you read a site's privacy policy to find out what ...

Putting Workplace Violence In Perspective Following September

(Thu Nov 10th, 2005, by Felix P. Nater)

The Security Consultant's Perspective... Putting the threat of violence and security in the workplace following September 11, 2001 in perspective has a broader meaning and greater appreciation. The price of Workplace Violence has a physical, emotiona...

Running your first scan using NessusWX

(Sat Nov 5th, 2005, by Lew Newlin)

The following is a simple how-to guide for installing, configuring, and running your first vulnerability scan using the NessusWX Windows client. The instructions do not include in depth explanations as it is assumed that you are familiar with benefi...

14 Household Ways To Protect Your Computer From Viruses

(Fri Nov 4th, 2005, by Marv Ko)

Computer viruses are deadly. They often spread without any apparent contact and can be a nuisance, or even worse, fatal to your computer. Individuals who create these viruses, estimated at 10-15 new ones a day, are the electronic version of terrorist...

Product Review

(Wed Nov 2nd, 2005, by Richard Lowe)

I've tried using a number of personal firewalls, including WRQ AtGuard (since purchased by Symantec), BlackIce and ZoneAlarm. On my opinion, ZoneAlarm Pro is by far and away the best personal firewall on the market. I like this firewall because it i...

Virus Protection

(Tue Nov 1st, 2005, by Richard Lowe)

One of the saddest things in the entire world is hearing the words, "I think I've been hit by a virus" or "my computer was destroyed by a virus, can you help me please?" Every time I hear these words I want to cry - well, actually I want to scream in...