THE TEN IMMUTABLE LAWS OF SECURITY

This is important reading for everyone that owns a computer: The Ten Immutable Laws Of Security. The article has a short, non-technical discussion of each one. Highly recommended! Law #1: If a bad guy can persuade you to run his program on your computer, it’s not your...

NEW PATCH FOR INTERNET EXPLORER

There’s another update for Internet Explorer versions 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0, to fix a slew of vulnerabilities that have come to light recently. Here’s an article with details. Everybody and their brother are trying to find ways to break Microsoft products. Microsoft has...

BILL GATES ON SECURITY Bill Gates sent out a widely circulated e-mail message today about secure computing. It’s interesting reading, even if you’re suspicious of Microsoft’s track record and its willingness to carry through on its promises. Here’s a place to read it...

THE NEXT STEP IN PERSONAL COMPUTING

Here’s an important one. My mind is buzzing trying to guess the implications of this. This comes from an e-mail newsletter put out by Windows & .NET magazine, summarizing an exclusive account in Newsweek. It’s your first look at ideas that will profoundly change...

ANTIVIRUS VENDORS AND SLEAZY PRESS RELEASES

The news from McAfee is alarming: a new virus can infect .JPG picture files; potentially no file type is safe to exchange in e-mail; maybe we should never share .JPGs by e-mail. Here’s the McAfee press release; here’s an example of the news coverage it generated...

THE FBI, PROUD GUARDIANS OF OUR RIGHTS

Gotta love this story. In 2000, the FBI apparently used Carnivore electronic surveillance in an attempt to collect information on Osama bin Laden’s network. Unfortunately they screwed up and also collected a whole bunch of e-mails exchanged by “non-covered...