Expert analysis

It attacked early in the morning without warning, provocation or even a whiff of foreshadowing. Unnoticed, it stealthily wormed through Beefmaster.com’s network …

The news has been rife over the last few weeks with stories of privacy breaches by names we trust and use on daily basis. First it was Google. The corporation with the most …

Over the past few years, we have completed a number of social engineering tests as part of advanced penetration testing at various organizations. Coincidentally, I recently …

PC Tools Firewall Plus (6.0.0.88) is a free personal firewall for Windows. It helps you prevent unauthorized users from gaining access to your computer through the Internet or …

Francis deSouza is senior vice president of the Enterprise Security Group at Symantec. In this interview he discusses Symantec’s recent acquisitions, how they mitigate …

Ongoing changes to network and security device configuration are unavoidable and necessary for business. But they are also risky. They can have unexpected consequences – …

As a boy I loved Lego. I’d use the red and green and white bricks that in those days came in just a few shapes, to construct houses, ships, cars and stairways that lead …

If you have been worried lately about what information that you have included in your Facebook account might be accessible to people other than your Facebook friends, wonder …

Norman Sadeh, CEO or Wombat Security, is also a Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University where he developed Wombat’s anti-phishing …

If you care about your data, you should consider backups as essential, not just important. Apple did a lot for the average user with the introduction of Time Machine, but …

If you’d looked through the contingency plans of the world’s top 500 companies in March of this year, it’s unlikely you’d have found a scenario that …

LastPass (v. 1.68.2) is a multi-platform, multi-browser password manager and form filler. You can use it on Windows, Mac OS or Linux; with IE, Firefox, Safari or Chrome. I …