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Privacy: Erase Your Hard Drive
You may not be aware of this, but merely erasing your data the regular way does not make it disappear for good. Some of it can still be retrieved with the use of recovery …
Network Access Control (NAC)
The three cardinal questions for security compliance, which every network administrator and owner endeavour to answer are: How do I stop unauthorized users and endpoints from …
Security Plugins for Movable Type
Movable Type is a popular weblog publishing system that supports a variety of plugins. This article lists some very useful security-oriented plugins that can enhance your …
Safeguard Your Organization with Proper Password Management
Access control is one way to ensure security in your organization. An intruder can break into your network by compromising accounts with weak passwords. If the compromised …
Mac Security Freeware: Confidential Data Manager and Password Storage Utility
In a series of articles on Mac security freeware I will be covering a number of newly released security tools for Mac OS X. This time I am taking a look at two confidential …
A Multi Layered Approach to Prevent Data Leakage
Databases remain one of the least protected areas in the enterprise Skilled malicious hackers are no longer interested in getting millions of people to open up e-mailed …
Searching For a Cure to Web Malware
Nine out of ten new web sites visited are found through Internet searches. In fact, web search has become an essential part of doing business online with more than 80 per cent …
Interview with Michael Rash, Security Architect and Author of “Linux Firewalls”
Michael Rash is a security architect with Enterasys Networks, where he develops the Dragon intrusion and prevention system. He is a frequent contributor to open source …
Online Information Security First Person Shooter (FPS) Game
Is it against the company policy to play games while sitting in your comfortable cubicle? What if the game is computer security related? Symantec created an online FPS (first …
Know Your Enemy: Behind the Scenes of Malicious Web Servers
In our recent KYE paper on malicious web servers, we identified several hundred malicious web servers. These servers launched, so-called drive by downloads, that allowed them …
PCI DSS Compliance: A Difficult But Necessary Journey
The need to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) has been a rude wake up call for thousands of companies who believed their networks are …
Interview with Janne Uusilehto, Head of Nokia Product Security
Janne is Head of Nokia Product Security, responsible for product security development at the world’s number 1 mobile device manufacturer. He is a member of several Nokia …