Love letters on the MBR

WED 28 NOV. 2007 |Featured in: Hackersblog

Finjan confirms botnet swarms shrinking to avoid detection

Finjan has confirmed fellow IT security vendor F-Secure's analysis that botnets are getting smaller, as criminals seek to ensure their botnet swarms evade detection.

WED 03 OCT. 2007 |Featured in: Hackersblog

XP 2 slowdowns

Steve Bass writes about an MS KB article that explains why XP SP 2 might slow your system down. Steve Bass link here, Microsoft link here.

TUE 29 MAY 2007 |Featured in: Hackersblog

Email Privacy: Is it Even Possible?

Although studies show that young people are abandoning email in favor of text messaging and IM programs for social communications, businesses and many of us "oldies but goodies" continue to depend on email for exchanging messages with family, friends, co-workers, clients and others. Some of the information we put in email is personal, and some of it is even subject to laws such as HIPAA or the GLB Act that mandate we protect it from unauthorized disclosure. So the subject often comes up: just how private is email, and what can we do to make it more so?

FRI 23 MARCH 2007 |Featured in: Hackersblog

Understanding subnetting

One of the most difficult aspects for many people to understand about TCP/IP networking is subnetting. Our friend George Ou wrote an outstanding piece on the subject a while back, and we highly recommend it if you’re looking to get a full understanding of this area.

THU 22 MARCH 2007 |Featured in: Hackersblog

How's Your Email Etiquette?

A reader recently suggested that I write an editorial about the psychology of returning emails. In other words, why is it that some people always seem to respond quickly to your email messages, while others wait a week or more to answer?

THU 22 MARCH 2007 |Featured in: Hackersblog

Spam. Yeah, it's up

SecurityFocus writes about the situation. We helped a small bit on this article.

WED 21 MARCH 2007 |Featured in: Hackersblog

Are disclaimers a security risk?

Analyst says disclaimers are bad because: Any standardized, boilerplate text is a godsend for a malicious network sniffer who's hell-bent on stealing your secrets.

WED 21 MARCH 2007 |Featured in: Hackersblog

On Skype and firewalls

There has been some discussion on the net of a recent article written by Jürgen Schmidt about how Skype gets around firewalls.

FRI 16 MARCH 2007 |Featured in: Hackersblog

This Origami thing looks pretty interesting

Microsoft’s new ultra-portable PC, code-named Origami, is supposed to be announced on March 2nd.

WED 14 FEB. 2007 |Featured in: Hackersblog