Security news you can use – The updates keep rolling!
December 30, 2009 by admin

Keeping your system secure is a never ending battle. The evil-doers on the net are getting ever more sophisticated, and coming up with new ways to fool, cajole, trick or force you into downloading, running or loading software on your system that will compromise your system – at best, rendering it unusable, or at worst, invading your privacy, or even draining your bank account. It’s a Wild West frontier out there in the interwebs!

With that, let’s take a look at some of the recent updates and developments ion security news:

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Security Wednesday – Keeping you up to date
October 21, 2009 by admin

I’ve missed a few weeks with my recent travel, and boy do we have a lot to talk about with security updates this week! In fact, there is so much, I’m going to have to give it to you in condensed form, and provide the links for further reading if you’re interested. We’ve had a big Windows patch Tuesday for October (the biggest ever!), some Apple updates and some Adobe updates. Remember, keeping up to date, currently patched software is a major step in keeping your system secure and protected against malware and worse.

Let’s start with the Microsoft Windows updates.

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Browsing safely, browser updates, and a brief look forward – security news
September 23, 2009 by admin

Safe Browsing – Tip of the Week

This week’s tip comes courtesy of the Security Now! podcast, a great weekly treatise on all things secure. This is a really cool tip, thanks to Steve Gibson for producing a very informative podcast!

There is a “diagnostic page” on Google, that consolidates malware reporting of a given domain or site based on Google’s crawling of the website. It will give a report on the website, indicating whether Google’s web crawling bots have detected malware in the site or any of its links. The diagnostic page is accessible using the following URL text:

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