Security Archives
More silly credit card security
More pointless security for your credit card.
Credit Card Activation a security risk
Your new credit card can be activated by anyone at all.
Security notifications
Secunia’s apparent new practice of publicly announcing security exploits is dangerous.
How Much Security is Needed?
Not all security measures are appropriate in all situations. You need to consider the value of the information being protected when designing a security system. Also, some novel approaches to preventing dictionary attacks.
Personal firewall advantages
A NAT router cannot is protect computers on your network from the other computers on your network.
NAT is not a firewall
A NAT router simply denies incomming traffic that it doesn’t understand. That’s one function of a firewall, but not the only one.
Minority Security Report
Tom Cruise demonstrates poor security administration practices.
Deny everything
When thinking security, only open what is neccessary. Block everything else, including the unknown.
How to hack our site
The New York Times has an embarassing secret.
Secure Code
I read a review of what sounds like an interesting book, "Writing Secure Code" by...
Application firewalls
As companies secure their physical networks with firewalls and strict security policies, hackers are turning...
IIS lockdown
Businesses running IIS as a Web server need to have effective procedures to secure the...