Whenever you are doing work on a server, security should be at the top of your list. For obvious reasons, a server is the absolute worst place to have a malware infection. To help minimize the risk, you should always be smart with your browsing habits. If you are working on a Windows Server OS (a true server OS, not XP or 2000 acting as a server) and using...

While doing some research the other day on firewalls, I came across (naturally) Wikipedia’s page on firewall comparisons. This page was actually exactly what I was looking for as it lays out some popular ‘personal’ and commercial options side by side. Outside what I was looking for, you can see the Windows firewall actually compares quite...

Today’s post is more or less just an example that just about anything, image protection in this case, can be ‘hacked’. In this post titled “Recovering Censored Text Using Photoshop and JavaScript“, the author has a script which recovers blurred text from an image. Quoting the article: Applying a filter like Photoshop’s...

Every web site you use which has account and login capabilities has a log out function (if not, it is a poorly designed site) which you may or may not use. So for the purposes of this tip, I want to share why not logging out when you are done can be dangerous. Please keep in mind, this is just one possible exploitation and it depends on the way the site you are...

In a recent study which (hopefully) is not applicable to our readers, it was confirmed that users are “idiots”. From the article: [T]he students seemed to find any dialog box a distraction from their assigned task; nearly half said that all they cared about was getting rid of these dialogs. The dialog boxes they are referring to are fake dialog boxes...

As you may know, anytime you connect to a wireless network, you run the risk of someone “sniffing” your network traffic. Depending on what you are doing on the network such as sending emails or sensitive information (which you really shouldn’t do on a public wireless network anyway), there is the possibility someone could intercept the data. To...

Buying and selling online is not hard to do. It actually might be the most convenient and easy method out there, but unfortunately it gets a lot of negativity because of the lurking ‘fraud’/'scammer’ elements. If the fear of fraud is deterring you from selling some of your stuff online, here are some tips to help identify red flags to be aware...

A ran across a rather alarming article today which I “borrowed” the name of this post from: “Most Bank Sites Are Insecure“. From the article: The vulnerabilities identified by the authors aren’t fixable with a simple patch. Rather, they are issues like login boxes, information submission forms, security information, and contact...

One feature common to many Windows firewall programs is not only the network port filter but the ability to monitor and approve programs attempting to communicate to the Internet. For you Mac users out there looking a program to do this, check out Little Snitch. Little Snitch is not a firewall, as this is what it does: Little Snitch informs you whenever a...

Flash (in my opinion the worst thing that has happened to the Internet, but that is a subject for another day) is now another vehicle for malicious software attacks. According to this article (which is highly technical) by merely visiting an site which has an infected Flash banner ad you are subject to an exploit. For an example, check out this particular case...

If you have ever wondered what would happen if you were to actually respond to the myriad number of spam messages you probably receive, then check out the article “Diary of a deliberately spammed housewife” on Network World. The article’s premise is a an interesting one: what happens if you actually respond to every spam message you receive?...