Security Best Practices: Archive: September 2008

Virtual Security? The PHANTOM Knows.

IBM's PHANTOM project aims to detect ghosts in the virtual machine.

How To: Laptop Security Basics

AntiOnline Spotlight Tutorial: How secure is your laptop? With these tips, you can keep you data out of grabby hands.

McAfee Nabs Secure Computing for Network Cred

The second-largest name in security software makes a play to better rival No. 1 Symantec.

Palin E-mail 'Hack' Was Hardly a Hack

A quick Google search yielded everything the cracker needed to know to reset Palin's Yahoo e-mail password. So what is your mother's maiden name?

Does PCI Compliance Equal Security?

Not always, but it is a step in the right direction.

Gov. Sarah Palin's Yahoo Mail Account Hacked

Vice presidential candidate's e-mails, photos put up on Web.

Presidential Elections will Stuff Inboxes

Is the amount of junk e-mail you receive daily driving you crazy? Wait until the hackers begin leveraging interest in the elections.

How To Get Your Email Past Clients' Spam Filter

Achieving “deliverability,” otherwise known as getting email delivered to a user’s inbox in a timely and fully-functional fashion, is both an art and a science.

Hackers Hit BusinessWeek With Malware

The site was hit by a SQL injection attack and connects users to a sleeper site.

How to Prevent a Coffee Shop Wi-Fi Attack

Logging on using your mobile device allows hackers to steal your password unless you take basic precautions.

Why Are IT Security Pros so Bad?

Have you heard about the security conference where the organizers inadvertently distributed a virus-infected USB stick to the attendees?

Lawmakers Warned of Threats to the Grid

On anniversary of Sept. 11 attacks, House subcommittee mulls cyber security bill.

Google to Purge Server Logs Twice as Fast

In a nod to mounting privacy concerns, Google slashes the time it stores users' IP addresses.

Cracking Passwords

Tip of the Trade: Find password weaknesses before it's too late. john-the-ripper offers three cracking modes to evaluate passwords.

Microsoft Pushes Digital IDs for Kids Online

Making the Web safer for kids is the idea, but how realistic is the proposal?

Secure Computing says Securify the Right Fit

The $15 million purchase adds identity-based monitoring to Securing Computing's portfolio.

Data Breach: The New Old Bogeyman

Best Western may have dodged a bullet, but the situation brought to light how customer data of all types are at risk.