Great article on secure use of email titled Secure Online Behavior, Part II: Secure E-Mail Behavior over at the SecurityFocus site. It discusses the types of email clients and some potential problems, how to create passwords, and how to handle attachements. Seems clear and concise. This seems a little overboard. What authentication method does Microsoft use with MSN…
The remnants of Tropical Storm Allison was good to us last night. 8 to 9 inches of rain. So what if most of it ran off, a place that felt as dry as we did needed the precipitation. Two scam artists for the price of one? Lesson one: Get rich quick schemes make the other…
SecurityWatch has an interesting article discussing a new virus which looks for filenames which might contain kiddie porn. Once it identifies a file that may contain it, the file and email address are emailed to a government agency. Read the article. Another article discusses a bill circulating the House which would allow ISPs to sue spammers.…
Tom Wise has another opinion article out on Racism and the criminal justice system. Read it on Alternet.org ———- Shopping online with a credit card should be getting safer. Inter@ctive Week has an article on Mastercard, Visa, and American Express approaches to making this stuff safe. Inter@ctive Week article
Someone wrote a virus which exploits a backdoor created by the lion worm to… patch the infected system. Interesting that anti-virus “experts” are concerned about it because it does break into your system. Read the article at securitywatch.com.
Hmmmmmmmmmm… guess it is time to clean up my space in the office, huh? It seems that the large amount of hacking and an innability to stop it has resulted in vigilantes attacking perceived threats. See article Hmmmmmmm… Defacements rise in China/U.S. hacker war. Kind of like gangs tagging streets. You go into the other’s territory and…
It is unfortunate that the Taliban decided to destroy any non-Muslim artifacts in Afghanistan. Some fairly recent photos at Yahoo show that they destroyed 2 giant Buddhas thought to be over 1500 years old. I don’t quite understand the need to attack others that are different. For those of you that do not have it… I recommend…
Security Focus article titled Evaluating Anti-Virus Software for Home Use . Looks like a great reference on protecting one’s computer from viruses. Updated the movie list… apparently I am quickly approaching the 400 movie mark. Sad, isn’t it? Need to come up with a very scaleable storage solution. Right now I only have a 100 count…
Some interesting security articles… AIM Is Insecure (duh!?) and some details of the Microsoft October hack tell-all.