[this post from Nerd Dennis Houseknecht] 1. Think that putting a password on a hard drive protects it from...

[This post is from Nerd Dennis Houseknecht] The important point here is not "who", but "how". This is an example of...

Regarding the last post, Daryl Siemens asked an excellent question: Would Nerds Mail Protection protect against such an attack. I thought the answer was worth sharing with all – it really depends upon how the attack is designed. That is why defending clients is so difficult. The answers are defense in depth (multi-layered defenses), defense in width (looking at every avenue of attack), and good old commons sense.

[thanks to Nerd Dennis Houseknecht for inspiring this post] This was a very light patch Tuesday for Microsoft, but...

Passwords are too often the weakest link when it comes to securing your confidential information. Good passwords should be a minimum of 8 characters with a mix of upper case and lower case letters, symbols and numbers.

It’s better to have security or anti-virus software on your computer, even if it ends up never removing any infections because if you don’t have the protection, how will you know you’re infected at all? You won’t, even on a Mac

My Grandma used to say that keeping track of your lies is more work than telling the truth. She was right. When it comes to those security questions that serve as the key to resetting your password, though, lie, lie, and lie some more!

Every time you visit a website that includes a lot of ads, you are effectively visiting many sites at once. That is because those ads are probably executing “code” (that is, computer programs) in your web browser (that is, on YOUR computer).

There are reports of rogue malware disguised as ESET Smart Security.
According to the ESET article…