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800,000 stolen social security numbers

John — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 22:25:43 +0000

Lesson #1 in network security: Security through obscurity is a bad idea
The state of Ohio had entrusted its data to an endless stream of consultants, who in turn, used an intern and his apartment as their offsite backup solution. The tape drives were stolen from his car, parked in front of his apartment, where he had forgotten them.

Use HTML to protect your email addresses

Jaime — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:59:47 +0000

Publicly displayed email addresses (in HTML) can be protected by coding them using their ascii character entities with the help of this tool. My thought is, how soon is it before email bots change their tactics and render this technique is unusable?

Anti-spyware tools reviewed

John — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:47:30 +0000

In case you’re wondering if you’ve been infected with spyware or not, here is a review of some of the tools out there to help you clean your computer.

A review of anti-spyware tools

John — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:33:22 +0000

Spyware is become more and more prolific. Thankfully, so is our awareness of it. Here is a review of some utilities you can use to clean up your computer. Even if you think you are safe, run one of these anyways. You never now for sure until you do.

Still Hardly Trustworthy?

Jaime — Thu, 15 May 2003 23:27:06 +0000

The fact that Microsoft has chosen to apply some of the most aggressive secure coding practices to its own internal development and not its product development is an all-too-familiar sign of the Microsoft culture.

http://www2.cio.com/research/security/edit/a02272003.html