Every computer needs a good anti virus software program. Being a computer repair technician I can tell you flat out that most of my money is made from people who do not want to spend the money on a good anti-virus software program. There are so many different companies, brands, ...

There is no ‘one size fits all’ approach to information security, and there are no magicbullets. Information security issues and resources for small and entrepreneurialcompanies helps managers to identify and respond to the ...

I was reading some forums about comodo firewall. Some users are not feeling easy in dealing with firewall. Here is a video tutorial to deal with this. 1. Go to http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.co... and download the firewall 2. ...

Growing up, you learn many of the things you need to know about how to operate and care for a car by sitting in the back seat while adults drive and care for their vehicles. Similarly, you learn many of the things you need to know about how to care ...

The media has helped make cross-site scripting (XSS) a familiar term, and the attention is deserved. It is one of the most common security vulnerabilities in web applications, and many popular open source PHP applications suffer from constant XSS vulnerabilities. XSS attacks have the following characteristics: Exploit the trust a user has for a ...

Despite the similarities in name, cross-site request forgeries (CSRF) are an almost opposite style of attack. Whereas XSS attacks exploit the trust a user has in a web site, CSRF attacks exploit the trust a web site has in a user. CSRF attacks are more dangerous, less popular (which means ...

Lots of programs are written with the pervasive assumption that enough resources will be available. Many programs don't even think about what will happen if not enough resources are available, and sometimes they do the wrong thing. So look to see what happens if there's not enough memory and some allocations ...

Holiday season shopping is at the peak and identity theft is also at its height. A police report that provides specific details of the identity theft is considered an Identity Theft Report, which entitles you to certain legal rights when it is provided to the three major credit reporting agencies ...

A buffer overflow occurs when you write a string (usually a string of characters) into an array, and keep on writing past the end of the array, overwriting whatever happened to be after the array. Security-problem buffer-overflows can arise in several situations: when reading input directly into a buffer; when copying ...

The trustworthy channel is the first step in sending the information. If the channel have loop holes and not reliable then you may be hit and your data can be hacked on the way. If you send passwords in cleartext over an Ethernet LAN with untrusted people on it. If you create ...

If a program has a bug in it that manifests under extreme circumstances, then normally, it's a minor annoyance. Usually, you can just avoid the extreme circumstances, and the bug isn't a problem. You could duplicate the effect of tickling the bug by writing your own program, if ...

In computer security, social engineering is a term that describes a non-technical kind of intrusion that relies heavily on human interaction and often involves tricking other people to break normal security procedures. A social engineer runs what used to be called a "con game". For example, ...