Bit-Defender Internet Security Review
It’s that time of year again, all of the various security suites are coming out with their 2012 versions and redoing interfaces and making it all bigger, stronger and faster….
A Dark Cloud: Anonymity and Privacy Fall Further Before a Cloud Computing Experiment
An ominous headline quietly passed through the electronic ether recently. Carnegie Mellon University published a paper entitled “Faces of Facebook: Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality (PDF).” The paper…
Clickjacking: What is it and How You Can Protect Yourself?
Lately, there has been a lot on the news about this type of computer attack called “click-jacking” where, through the use of web pages, hackers are cheating people out of…
In the late 1980’s, early 1990’s, DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) of the US began to see how the Internet could become a significant player in the nation’s defense….
SOPA – The IP Hammer Has Swung
The rise of the Internet as an intractable piece of the global social engine has brought with it a number of large scale societal problems. One of the ones that…
Email Encryption: Protecting Yourself and Your Information
You decided to write a steamy email to your lover late at night from your home computer. Pet names were used as well as some other language that, if anyone…
Securing Your Private Wireless Network
It has been all over the news lately that corporations and even government computer systems have been broken into. While this is happening, sensitive data is being stolen and leaked…
What is Tor? A Closer Look at The Onion Router
It’s been a hot topic in the news for years now. Privacy on the Internet is something that users not only want but expect, even if they know they shouldn’t. …
The Case of the Overzealous Security Guard
Just last week, I had an interesting experience with a web host that I use (as always, names of the guilty withheld). It highlighted some of the things that I’ve…
Security Aspects to Watch for in Your Server Logs
If you’ve started taking a closer eye on security for your web site then you’ve probably at some point started looking at the actual logs of users visiting your web…
Understanding The Root User And How to Obtain It
If you’re new to the realm of dedicated web hosting, you may suddenly be inundated with a bunch of terms with which you’re unfamiliar. Believe it or not, there’s a…
How to Install ModSecurity in CentOS
If you’re the proud owner of a CentOS (Seems like most people are favoring the Linux distro these days!) then you owe it to yourself to install a simple utility…