Security Task Manager displays detailed information about all running processes (applications, DLLs, BHOs, and services). For each process, it improves on Windows Task Manager, providing a security risk rating, a process description, file path, CPU usage graph, start time, embedded hidden functions (for example keyboard monitoring, autostart entry, and browser supervision or manipulation), and process [...]
Check Point ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 7 continues to innovate, this time dropping its longtime relationship with CA Antivirus and partnering instead with Kaspersky, makers of the award-winning Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6. Kaspersky, along with the award-winning MailFrontier Anti-Spam application, make ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 7 the only best-of-breed suite on the market and make it [...]
Two of Silicon Valley’s truisms are increasingly in conflict with each other, and you can see the battle at Google.
The first is that to make software that is really powerful and easy to use, you take out all but the most essential features. Apple has been the leading advocate of this method. Google, too, has [...]
Almost everybody gets them. Messages advertising stock market tips, office supplies and pornographic sites or promising easy money or miracle cures. Messages warning of dire consequences or lost fortunes if the messages aren’t forwarded to everyone we know. Scams attempting to fool victims to typing banking information and passwords into fake web sites. They’re a [...]
More than 2000 virus and worm carrying email messages arrive at the JMU email server each and every day and we’re seeing increasing numbers of virus carrying instant messages. Infected computers spew out thousands of packets per minute attempting to infect neighboring computers with worms. Web visitors using Internet Explorer have spyware and trojans installed [...]
We were distinctly underwhelmed by Norton Internet Security 2008 (NIS2008), the annual upgrade to the leading security suite on the market. Its performance and list of features are good for a security package, but its installation, interface, and configuration all left much to be desired. And as an upgrade to NIS2007, the new version also [...]
Tips and Techniques to Protect Your Information
Computer Security Institute (CSI) developed FrontLine, a quarterly four-page newsletter, to increase employees’ awareness of critical security awareness topics. A powerful awareness tool reaching every employee in your organization, FrontLine delivers and reinforces the security message in a friendly and easy-to-understand format.
Personalize It
Every quarterly issue includes your logo, company [...]
Although we increasingly hear that the Internet is a risky place, we might not yet see the threat as personal, not to mention social or organizational. Threats are directly embodied in the form of malicious users—as phishing attacks and other forms of social manipulation (the classic “con”)—but they increasingly use socially generated information. We generate [...]
Gartner — What if your network could proactively adapt to threats and the needs of the business? That’s the vision of the adaptive security infrastructure unveiled by Gartner here today.
Neil MacDonald, vice president and fellow at Gartner, says this is the security model necessary to accommodate the emergence of multiple perimeters and moving parts on [...]
An attack this week targeting the Metasploit Website redirected visitors to a phony page proclaiming the hack — but the hacking tool site’s servers remained intact.
HD Moore, creator of Metasploit and director of security research for BreakingPoint Systems, says the attack didn’t actually touch the Metasploit servers themselves. The attacker or attackers instead infected another [...]
