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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 …

As the third anniversary of the infamous TJX data breach approaches, Slavik Markovich, CTO of Sentrigo, shares his thoughts on how data security has improved, and also …

For all computer users, patching is an important aspect of keeping secure online. Need more information on exactly what patching is, why it’s so important, and how to …