The Types of Hackers: Black Hat, White Hat or a Gray Hat Hacker, Which Type are you?
A white hat hacker is a computer and network expert who attacks a security system on behalf of its owners or as a hobby, seeking vulnerabilities that a malicious hacker could exploit. Instead of taking malicious advantage of exploits, a white hat hacker notifies the system's owners to fix the breach before it is can […]
Cloud Computing and Security Concerns
Cloud computing has been receiving a lot of press in the IT mainstream media lately and all indications points to it continuing to be a hot topic for some time.
Computer Malware and Preventive Recommendations: Botnets
Botnets are one of the fastest growing and the most dangerous threat on the Internet today. “Bot” stands for robot, which is a piece of software with some intelligence to perform a task and the “net” stands for network which is the collection of these individual bots under one controlling person called a bot herder.
Mac OS X: A Threat is growing…
Security researchers are discovering serious vulnerabilities in the Mac OS X system. Even though we have not seen specific malware to exploit these vulnerabilities, they do exist in the labs and technical papers as proof of concepts.
File Sharing Applications: Another way to be a victim of identity theft…
If you are using a peer-to-peer file-sharing program to download music and videos, you may be a prime candidate for Identity Theft. Applications such as Limewire, Edonkey and numerous others on the Internet may also allow individuals to download personal documents from your computer at will.
VMware’s 3rd Annual Federal Technical Conference in DC
VMware, Inc. makes virtualization software that runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X as well as directly on server hardware without requiring an installed operating system call VMware ESX. The VMware 3rd annual federal technical conference will be in Washington DC on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 between 8:30am - 4:00pm at the Grand […]
IT Security Policy: The First Line of Defense
An IT security policy is a statement by management to how the organization will protect their resources from unauthorized access, alteration, or destruction. The IT security policy also provides a blueprint of management’s strategy as regards information security.
Adobe Zero-Day Attack on DC-Based Organizations
On June 4, 2010, Adobe announced a critical vulnerability with Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Acrobat that could allow attackers to take control of the affected system. While Adobe is working to release a fix, the vulnerability is being actively exploited in what are known as Zero-Day attacks. Since then, a series of Advanced […]