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New books: Windows 7, Python, project management

With Windows 7: Up and Running you get the essential information you need to upgrade or install the system and configure it to fit your activities, along with a tour of …

Week in review: iPhone data harvesting, encryption key laws and security trends in 2010

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Top 10 holiday threats As the holidays bring an increase in online shopping, …

Firewall management during the holidays

Tufin Technologies is offering some useful recommendations to make sure organizations don’t become a victim over the Christmas and New Year break – a time when …

Security trends coming in 2010

Websense released its list of security predictions and trends anticipated for 2010. The emerging trends and predictions show an overall blending of security threats across …

Apple updates Java for Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6

The latest Java updates from Apple deliver improved reliability, security, and compatibility for Java SE 6 and J2SE 5.0. Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 6 supersedes all …

Google Public DNS released

Today Google launched their own public Domain Name System (DNS) resolver called Google Public DNS that you can use as an alternative to your current DNS provider. Google …

12 tips for safe online shopping

Approximately ten million Americans have their identity stolen each year according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). As more business is conducted online and sensitive …

Changes coming to the OWASP Top 10 in 2010

In the spirit of improving Web application security worldwide the folks at OWASP have released the OWASP Top 10 2010 “release candidate”. It’s currently open …

The Zeus botnet strikes again

The Zeus botnet is hitting inboxes worldwide this week. Capitalizing on the public concern over the flu and the recent swine flu outbreak, a spate of malicious emails have …

Security incidents at an all-time high

The Computer Security Institute (CSI) pre-released selected findings from its 2009 Computer Crime and Security Survey. The survey, now in its 14th year, found that average …

Security concerns hinder cloud computing adoption

Concerns about the security of cloud computing environments top the list of reasons for firms not being interested in the pay-per-use hosting model of virtual servers, …

Internet worms record rapid global growth

Major security developments in 2009 included Conficker, the most damaging networking worm for years. Conficker spread fast in computers using the Windows XP operating system …

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