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Computer Security

Preventing Security Threats from USB Storage Devices

May 11, 2008

Working in Computer Security, one of the biggest threats we face today is the threat of an Insider, an Employee who might casually walk in with his 4 GB USB Flash drive, plug it in to their computer within the corporate network and walk away with valuable data. I have seen solutions ranging from expensive [...]

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Operating Systems Security: Year 2007 Vulnerability Report

April 9, 2008

Operating Systems Security: Year 2007 Vulnerability Report This paper analyzes the vulnerability disclosures and security updates during the year 2007 for Windows Vista Operating System when compared to its predecessor, Windows XP, along with other modern Client Operating Systems Red Hat, Ubuntu and Apple Mac OS X. The results of this analysis based on the [...]

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Most Influential People in Security

March 23, 2008

Ryan Naraine over at eweek.com has come up with an interesting list of the top 15 most influential people in Computer Security. 1. Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team’ 2. Ivan Krstic, One Laptop Per Child’ 3. Chris Paget, IOActive’ , Google 4. Bunnie Huang, Bunnie Studios’ 5. Michal Zalewski, Google’ 6. Window Snyder, Mozilla 7. [...]

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Important Computer Security Terms and Terminology

January 19, 2008

This article lists some Computer Security Terms and Computer Security Terminology. For anyone reading any of the computer security terms below for the first time, I highly recommend that you Google these keywords and learn more about them. Adware: The difference between Adware and Spyware is very subtle. Both Adware and Spyware is installed without [...]

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Security of Open Source Software

January 17, 2008

Is Open Source Software Really more Secure? The constant stream of Windows vulnerability attacks result not solely due to security holes in the Operating System, but also because of the ubiquity of Windows as both a client and server operating system makes it a prime target for any malicious intent. While open source zealots declare [...]

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