Security

I spotted that the long popular BlackICE firewall is closing its doors next week but it will be supported through to the end of September 2008. However, if you are a fan (I’ve lost faith in it over the last few years), then fear not as its new(ish) owner Sunbelt Software is offering registered users [...]

[tags]Matousec, security, firewall, Comodo, Jetico[/tags]
A site I visit about once every other month or so has updated its leak-test results for the current crop of personal firewalls’.
Matousec’s Leak Tests have become a source of reassurance to end users on the one hand, but a source of contention for some firewall makers. Naturally any vendor that [...]

[tags]data, recovery, ontrack, norton, vogon, kroll, hard drive[/tags]
I’ve been reading a lot recently and even had an email or two as well as an uncle requesting my personal services with regards to data recovery. So it has caused me to think, can I add my own recipe for data recovery?
The caveats that apply here [...]

Once, a long time ago, I was told by a well-meaning person that “everybody has a hero,” which was then followed up with the reasonable question of “who is yours?”
Well, I confess I’ve never had a hero.
I’ve never been into rock star adulation.
There’s nobody I can think of whose life or achievements I want to [...]

[tags]PC, Security, Top, firewall, av, wifi[/tags]
When you get a new Windows PC or re-install an old one from scratch there are things you should do to secure the box and your habits. These are the ones I semi-automatically do or think about when going through this process. They fall into several categories with sub-point(s) to [...]

[tags]firefox, addons, extensions, danger, IE[/tags]
I trust most of you have heard about firefox by now even if you aren’t using it yet. However, what a lot of firefox users are unaware of is the extra functionality that it has above and beyond IE by use of addon ‘extensions‘.
Like most software these days there are support [...]

[tags]internet, monitoring, children, safety, security, guidelines, parents, software[/tags]
This post is fast becoming a monster - am I saying too much or is this helping? I certainly don’t know but I trust that this content is helping some out there. Part 1 which dealt with guidelines is here and Part 2 which ended up covering just [...]

In my first part of this series I talked about our need as parents to engage in our children’s use of the internet and that we need to establish guidelines. I touched on why I feel this is so and clarified what my guidelines are with the main one being that we must talk to [...]

[tags]eCrime, e-Crime, government, residents, porn[/tags]
I like The Register as they can always be trusted to enliven what can be seen as a dull subject matter but even they have their moments of seriousness. One such from yesterday is their reporting on Australia’s war on internet porn.
The one phrase that jumped out at me was “Countering [...]

Following on from my post about keeping our children safe the other day I wanted to continue on that theme but drill it down to more specifics on how or why we should monitor our children. It’s likely I’ll split this article into a why we should (or shouldn’t) and then do a follow up [...]