The other day on Facebook, one of my friends mentioned that today (i.e., that day) was a good day to update his passwords.  But he then lamented that some web sites don’t allow you to create more than a 12-character password!  He was incensed...

A few days ago, the Associated Press published an article highlighting a couple of cases where individuals with wireless networks that were insecure (had no password) were being investigated by the police.  The reason?  Someone piggybacking...

Yesterday, military reports out of Iran indicated that the country had once again been hit by a second computer virus.  From the Associated Press : TEHRAN, Iran – Iran has been hit by a second computer virus, a senior military official said Monday...

Over at ZD Net, contributor Ed Bott writes about an experiment he conducted between Internet Explorer 9 and Google Chrome and how good they were at catching malware: Social engineering has become the dominant method of distribution for fake antivirus...

Here’s a couple of short, interesting articles.  The 20-year old son of the founder of security software company Kaspersy (Yevgeny Kaspersky) was kidnapped last week and his kidnappers asked for a ransom of over $4 million.  Kaspersky's Son...

I pulled together some statistics on my collection of botnet statistics for the period of time between Rustock being shut down and Wednesday, April 6.  I wanted to see the distribution of botnets per country – now that Rustock is down, which country...

Over at Word to the Wise , Laura Atkins has a post up where she talks about the real problem with ESPs and their lack of internal security procedures which resulted in the breach of many thousands of email addresses (especially Epsilon).  However...

I came across this video on Youtube today, a collaborative video between WorldBusiness and Microsoft.  They go into the problem of botnets and then have clips and tips from various officials, including Pfizer and Microsoft, on how to stay secure...

I’ve written in the past that my Hotmail account has been hacked twice.  I think it was either due to an insecure wireless network or because of a Wordpress vulnerability.  In either case, I was able to track the spammer (or at least the accessing...

Finally , at long last, there is an easy way to check to see if your Internet browser is up-to-date or contains any security vulnerabilities.  A new browser plug-in from Qualys scans your browser for the current version of the software, along with...

Well, I’ve been in this business a long time and have been responsible for blocking billions of messages of spam over my life time.  There has been a lot of progress made over the past year, and especially with the Rustock take down last week, the...