SecurityFocus

Do We Need a New SPIM Law?
by Mark Rasch, 2005-02-28
Existing statutes may not be enough to crack down on Instant Messaging spammers.
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/303

Changing the Notification Process
by Daniel Hanson, 2005-02-23
Developers have the opportunity to offer better vendor security procedures and notifications in an open-source world.
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/302

The High-Hanging Fruit
by Mark Burnett, 2005-02-22
Now that Microsoft has pruned Windows of its most serious remote-access holes, its time Redmond fixes the local vulnerabilities too.
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/301

Complexity Kills Innovation
by Kelly Martin, 2005-02-17
There's more innovation coming from today's virus writers than from the big software companes whose core goals are to progress and innovate.
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/300

More Advisories, More Security
by Thierry Carrez, 2005-02-14
More and more, we see articles questioning the security of a given platform based solely on the number of advisories published -- and this approach is simply wrong.
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/299

Unexpected Attack Vectors
by Scott Granneman, 2005-02-09
A new round of attacks and phishing attempts use some unexpected attack vectors that we should have been paying attention to, but weren't.
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/298

Of Dog Sniffs and Packet Sniffs
by Mark Rasch, 2005-02-08
Why a Supreme Court decision on canine-assisted roadside searches opens the door to a new regime of Internet surveillance.
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/297

Linux Kernel Security is Lacking
by Jason Miller, 2005-02-02
Recent events have shown that the way security in the Linux kernel is handled is broken, and it needs to be fixed right now.
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/296

Microsoft's Velvet Glove
by Mark Burnett, 2005-01-31
Redmond's plan to make you install Windows authentication software before downloading vital security patches is a reasonable and gentle effort to limit piracy.
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/295

Mobile Viruses
by Kelly Martin, 2005-01-27
Mobile viruses that spread through mobile phones are starting to appear, but the big mobile virus epidemic is still a long ways off.
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/294