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Christmas Shopping: Vista Over XP?
2006-12-05 Microsoft has announced Vista's release dates. From a security standpoint what choice should consumers take during this Christmas shopping season? Most will be faced with Windows XP only or Windows XP with Microsoft's Express Upgrade option to Vista. Federico Biancuzzi interviewed a wide range of security researchers and anti-virus folks to get some consensus on the security of Vista over Windows XP for consumers, with some advice for corporate users as well. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/425 A Hard Lesson in Privacy 2006-11-27 Scott Granneman looks at a hard lesson in personal privacy and security through the lens of a very public and well-known female television show host in Europe. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/424 Vista's EULA Product Activation Worries 2006-11-20 Mark Rasch looks at the license agreement for Windows Vista and how its product activation component, which can disable operation of the computer, may be like walking on thin ice. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/423 FreeBSD Security Event Auditing 2006-11-10 The upcoming release of FreeBSD 6.2 includes the new Security Event Auditing system, that "permits the selective and fine-grained logging of security-relevant system events for the purposes of post-mortem analysis, intrusion detection, and run-time monitoring analysis." Federico Biancuzzi interviewed Robert Watson, founder of the TrustedBSD project, and discussed the advantages and potentialities it brings. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/422 Employee Privacy, Employer Policy 2006-10-31 Mark Rasch looks at two recent court cases where an employee's reasonable expectation of privacy was more important than the employer's ability to read any employee's e-mail - despite a privacy policy that clearly stated any company e-mail can, and will, be monitored. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/421 Surprises Inside Microsoft Vista's EULA 2006-10-27 Scott Granneman takes a look at some big surprises in Microsoft's Vista EULA that limit what security professionals and others can do with the forthcoming operating system. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/420 Viruses, Phishing, and Trojans For Profit 2006-10-24 Following the 2006 International Virus Bulletin Conference, Kelly Martin takes a look at the profit motives of the cyber criminals behind modern viruses, targeted trojans, phishing scams and botnet attacks that are stealing millions from organizations and individuals. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/419 ModSecurity 2.0 with Ivan Ristic 2006-10-16 ModSecurity is an open source web application firewall that runs as an Apache module, and version 2.0 offers many new features and improvements. Federico Biancuzzi interviewed Ivan Ristic to discuss the new logging system, events tracking and correlation, filtering AJAX or AFLAX applications, and just-in-time patching for closed source applications. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/418 Liar, Liar, and Pretexting 2006-09-19 Mark Rasch details the legality of pretexting by putting it in context with how it used, comparing it with legal forms of lying, and by looking at previous court cases involving pretexting in the United States. Hewlett Packard's use of pretexting also brings up potential charges of criminal fraud, violations of consumer protection laws, issues of deception, and the use of spyware. Together these issues make for a very interesting legal situation at HP. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/417 A Question of Ethics 2006-09-15 Ethics are of incredible importance in the security field. Scott Granneman looks at recent examples of poor security decisions made at HP, Diebold, Sony, and Microsoft. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/416 |
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