If you lose your Android phone, you'll want a couple of ways to find it again or make sure that--if it's truly lost--you can protect your private information.Robert Strohmeyer takes a look at some of the apps and tools that'll help keep your phone safe.<<Read More>>
Security Articles
| STUDENTS | STAFF AND FACULTY | NETWORK ADMINISTRTATORS |
| Date | Article Title |
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| Nov 2012 |
Pro-Iranian hackers stole data from UN atomic agency's server
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| Aug 2012 |
Secure your digital self: auditing your cloud identity
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| Aug 2012 |
Dropbox confirms it got hacked, will offer two-factor authentication
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| July 2012 |
Skype bug sends messages to to unintended recipients (Updated)
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| June 2012 |
Microsoft Update and The Nightmare Scenario
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| May 2012 |
Flashback infections not waning after all; 650,000 Macs still hijacked
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| May 2012 |
Google reaches out to owners of machines infected with DNSChanger malware
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| May 2012 |
Hacker Lewys Martin uses Call of Duty virus to sell players' card details
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| May 2012 |
Seeing ads on Wikipedia? Then you're infected
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| March 2012 |
30,000 WordPress blogs infected to distribute rogue antivirus software
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| Jan 2011 |
How Apple and Google will kill the password Imagine sitting down at a public PC, surfing the Web, visiting Facebook, checking your online bank account and buying something on Amazon.com -- all without entering passwords or credit card information. <<Read More>> |
| Jan 2011 |
Privacy Alert: 10 Biggest Threats of 2010 2010 could go on record as the year the privacy mess hit the proverbial fan. Companies such as Apple, AT&T, Facebook, and Google all got nailed for sharing users' personal data in big ways, accidentally or otherwise. Police officers were caught tracking people's movements via cell phones, while Web advertisers tracked surfers' virtual movements via hard-to-kill cookies. Schools spied on their students, mobile apps spied on their owners, and the feds caught heat for getting a little too personal with their security searches. <<Read More>> |
| Dec 2010 |
Free vs. Fee: Free and Paid Antivirus Programs Compared Can free antivirus software protect you? Or is it worth paying for a full-blown A/V app? We look at the benefits--and pitfalls--of free and paid antivirus products. <<Read More>> |
Nov 2010
Facebook Responds to Firesheep WiFi Security Controversy
Many tech insiders have been bleating for years about a privacy flaw inherent in unencrypted browsing that lets hackers snoop on your Web activity. But their cries didn’t reach the ears of the general public until the creation of “Firesheep,” a simple Firefox add-on that takes advantage of the flaw to let users on an unsecured WiFi network steal cookies and snoop on people’s Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr activity — basically any site that does not offer secure “HTTPS” browsing. <<Read More>>
Oct 2010
Federal Court Shuts Down LimeWire With Permanent Injunction
LimeWire, the Gnutella-based peer-to-peer file-sharing service, is no more. Major record labels, also known as file-sharers' archnemesis the RIAA, obtained an injunction from a U.S. District Court judge in New York City that stops Limewire from distributing their software or facilitating any file-sharing. <<Read More>>
Sep 2010
The 17 Most Dangerous Places on the Web
The scariest sites on the Net? They're not the only ones you might suspect. Here's what to watch out for and how to stay safe. <<Read More>>
Aug 2010
Risk of file sharing P2P software
File-sharing technology is a popular way for users to exchange, or "share," files. However, using this technology makes you susceptible to risks such as infection, attack, or exposure of personal information. <<Read More>>
July 2010
Reliable Encryption for the Rest of Us
Though encryption is a strong way to safeguard passwords, personal information, and other sensitive data, it can be confusing due to the acronyms and technobabble that surround the topic. <<Read More>>
June 2010
How to Secure or Find Your Android Smartphone
May 2010
Bugnets Could Spy on You via Mobile Devices
Imagine sitting in a café and discussing the details of a business proposal with a potential client. Neither you nor the client has a laptop; you're just two people having a conversation. But unbeknownst to you, someone half a world away is listening to every word you say. Later, as you leave, you receive a text message referring to the proposal and demanding money in exchange for silence. <<Read More>>
April 2010
More than 10,000 laptops were left behind at airport TSA checkpoints in 2008 each and every week. Yes, per week. Even if you make it through the airport, travel of all kinds can be dicey. A few years ago, more than 4,500 laptops were left behind in taxis in the city of Chicago alone. These numbers don't include the thousands of outright laptop and netbook thefts each week.With portability comes increased dangers: loss or theft of your netbook, and the subsequent data loss that occurs when any portable computing device goes AWOL. But with some preparation, you can increase your netbook security profile and easy the concerns about hardware and data loss. <<Read More>>
April 2010
Fight Against Phishing:44 Ways to Protect yourself
The Hackers have at their disposal an arsenal of weaponry - seemingly innocuous links embedded in emails that redirect to fake sites, pop-up windows that encourage you to enter sensitive information, URL masks that conjure up real Web addresses, and keystroke loggers that are lurking around waiting to capture your user ids and passwords even as you type them. You don’t necessarily have to be tech-savvy to protect yourself from phishing attacks, it’s enough if you keep your wits about you, are a little aware that not all sites on the Internet are the genuine article, and follow one or a combination of the following 44 tips. <<Read More>>
Jan 2010
How to Stop 11 Hidden Security Threats
Antivirus software and a firewall alone can't guarantee your safety. Here's how to foil the latest crop of sneaky attacks and nefarious attempts to steal your data.Do you know how to guard against scareware? How about Trojan horse text messages? Or social network data harvesting? Malicious hackers are a resourceful bunch, and their methods continually evolve to target the ways we use our computers now. <<Read More>>
Dec 2009
Top 10 Security Nightmares of the Decade
Blame the Internet for the latest decade of security lessons. Without it, you probably wouldn't even recognize the terms phishing, cybercrime, data breach, or botnet. Let's revisit the top security horrors of the past ten years, and try to remember what we learned from each. <<Read More>>
July 2009
Is Open Source Software More Secure than Proprietary Products?
When you buy software, you probably trust that you're getting a secure product that runs well. This faith may come from the fact that the source code - the digital DNA that tells the program how to work and what to do - is hidden from consumers. In most cases, only the select programmers tasked with maintenance and security can see it and make changes.The prevalence of Open Source Code, however, could make one wonder how much secret code matters. The term "open source" generally refers to programs in which people can view or modify the programming code. <<Read More>>
Feb 2008
Who else can Monitor your system : P2P softwares
P2P applications are also often bundled with third party spyware (or P2P services’ preferred euphemism “adware”),22 hijacking a user’s computer without his or her knowledge. Such third party software is used to produce targeted advertising by gathering detailed information stored on a user’s computer, including personal identification and web-browsing activity, which is then automatically relayed to a web server typically without the user’s knowledge. <<Read More>>
Jan 2008
Evaluating your Web Browser's security settings
Your web browser is your primary connection to the rest of the internet, and multiple applications may rely on your browser, or elements within your browser, to function. This makes the security settings within your browser even more important. Many web applications try to enhance your browsing experience by enabling different types of functionality, but this functionality might be unnecessary and may leave you susceptible to being attacked. The safest policy is to disable the majority of those features unless you decide they are necessary. If you determine that a site is trustworthy, you can choose to enable the functionality temporarily and then disable it once you are finished visiting the site. <<Read More>>
Nov 2005
One of the most common and efficient DDoS attack methods is based on using hundreds of zombie hosts. Zombies are usually controlled and managed via IRC networks, using so-called botnets. Let's take a look at the ways an attacker can use to infect and take control of a target computer, and let's see how we can apply effective countermeasures in order to defend our machines against this threat. <<Read More>>