More than 40 percent of all reports made to the FTC are related to Identity Theft.  Businesses and Individuals spend more than 300 million hours every year to deal with Identity Theft.  Going by the statistics, at least one person that has been a victim of Identity Theft is close to you.  Identity Theft is not always a result of what you have or have not done.   Lots of information regarding your identity is handled by companies and goverment organization you have wo...

If ‘Microsoft ditches Windows 2000, 98 and 95’, who will tackle security issues on them? A lot of people still continue to use Windows 2000, 98 and 95, even after Microsoft decided to stop supporting them. Just check this link and you will see that there are still more than 40-50% people who still use earlier version of Windows and are yet to migrate to Windows XP. A number of people don’t want to move to Windows XP either due to cost or just because they feel that their current versio...

So, we have this big Department of Homeland Security who governs the security of... well our Homeland. Being such, they have infamously become a symbol of security in the eyes of many corporations. But have they really earned that position or do we assume too much? Earlier this year a security firm used various open system tools while spending five months testing the security of the department. The main purpose of this was to attack passwords, vulnerability assess hosts, and to find r...

Cisco source for the Cisco Pix is now available for $24,000 according to "Source Code Club". The version they are selling is 6.3.1 which is a slightly older product compared to their latest 6.3.4 software. Cisco representative Penny Bruce said "We are aware of the posting and are looking into it." Purchases of SCC's illegal products are done through email using encryption to keep both parties identity secret and give you exclusive access to other non-public offers. This is not the f...

Service pack 2 for Windows XP made great advances with the built-in firewall over previous versions. Many features have been added to make it very competitive with other software based firewalls on the market. As with other software based firewalls, there is a period of time during boot up phase where the firewall does not protect you, a dedicated firewall does not share this defect. According to many anti-virus companies, the latest form of Bagle virus can now disable Windows firewall re...