Posted by: secureitfoundation on: March 25, 2010
‘Defence in depth’. That is what the commercial security world calls having multiple layers of security to protect you in case one fails. Simply put, your home computer needs to have multiple layers of defences including an up to date browser like Firefox, have Anti Virus software that works, run Windows Update every month and [...]
Posted by: secureitfoundation on: November 20, 2009
Unlike the default settings in Windows, Linux users have to enter the administrative password before they can install new software. Recently a popular variant of Linux called Fedora introduced a change to alter the security model of Fedora to no longer require the administrative password before installing new software. On paper it seems sensible, Fedora [...]
Posted by: secureitfoundation on: October 24, 2009
There hasn’t been a major operating system update for some time then two come along together. Both Apple Mac’s Snow Leopard and Microsoft’s Windows 7 are available, so both PC and Mac users have to decide if they upgrade. We have covered the correct decision process you should use when deciding if you should buy [...]
Posted by: secureitfoundation on: October 2, 2009
Security is an odd concept. You cannot hold it or touch it but is controls and impacts your life daily. Cameras, monitoring and big brother like states all exist to achieve one aim, to control human behaviour. Do this, don’t do that, warnings, penalties. All there to control your behaviour, for the benefit of society. [...]
Posted by: secureitfoundation on: September 17, 2009
It is still busy times for computer security. If you were not aware, Microsoft, omitted in this month’s STOM day a security fix for a networking issue that has been fixed in final version of Windows 7, but leaves Vista users vulnerable. It is known as SMB2 and you can read more about it on [...]
