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  • f-secure health check

    F-Secure Health Check

    Many companies are producing tools that scan the computer for security vulnerabilities.

  • windows vulnerability scanner

    Windows Vulnerability Scanner

    Windows is probably the operating system that is attacked the most, some say because it has the largest user base, some say because it is simply insecure.

  • Avira AntiVir Personal 8

    Avira AntiVir Personal 8 was released today and I thought it would be nice to write about this new release since AntiVir is one of the most popular free antivir

  • drag and crypt

    Drag and Crypt Ultra

    Drag and Crypt is a tiny application for Windows NT and newer operating systems that provides the user with a dropzone on the desktop that encrypts and decrypts

  • test my security

    Test my PC Security

    Is your computer secure? Is the firewall that you have installed working properly? Those questions are rather hard to answer even for users with lots of PC expe

  • spyware doctor

    Free Spyware Doctor 5.5 Starter Edition

    The security tools developers seem to be in a race currently to throw free versions of their products on the market in an effort to increase market share and br

  • virus total uploader

    Virus Total Uploader

    Virus Total is one of the many services that let you upload files to their server which are then scanned for viruses and malware.

  • Microsoft Security Bulletin March 2008

    Microsoft released their monthly Security Bulletin yesterday which consisted of four critical issues all affecting various editions of Microsoft Office.

  • Increase True Crypt AES performance

    I used the new version of True Crypt to encrypt my new external hard drive which has become almost a standard procedure for me to do.

  • Say no to Drugs Virus

    I received an email today from a reader who told me of a problem that he encountered lately on his computer.

  • true crypt

    Encrypting an USB Drive with True Crypt

    My last True Crypt guide dates way back and the purchase of my new shiny 500 Megabyte Maxtor USB drive made me think about writing a new guide that takes the ch

  • Defeating Disk Encryption

    I discovered an interesting video at Hack a Day from the University of Princeton demonstrating how to break disk encryption using so called RAM Dumps.

  • defensewall hips

    DefenseWall HIPS

    I have been in contact with the creator of the excellent DefenseWall HIPS application for some time now and he was so nice to give away ten copies of his softwa

  • lockcrypt password safe

    Lockcrypt Password Safe

    Where do you store your usernames and passwords ? In a text document on your computer ? In your wallet ? Storing sensible information like passwords, but also o

  • Microsoft releases 11 security bulletins

    Microsoft released their monthly security bulletin yesterday which listed 11 security bulletins containing a total of 17 patches for operating systems and softw

  • Theoretical Cryptography Part I - MD5

    Since Martin constantly manages to cover all ongoing news regarding cryptography and security I myself planned on writing about "any time soon", I had to look f

  • Bavarian Skype Trojan

    Two, seemingly authentic, documents have been leaked to the German Pirate Party on Wednesday containing information about costs and technical information about

  • rubotted trned micro

    Trend Micro RUBotted

    Trend Micro RUBotted is a BETA program that scans your system for bot related activity protecting it effectively from being hijacked and misused for criminal ac

  • digg malware

    When on Digg be careful

    Trend Micro have published another excellent article on their malware blog entitled A Tangled Web .

  • Why you should not run an Open Wi-Fi

    Security Expert Bruce Schneier wrote a commentary on Wired yesterday where he admitted that he was using an Open Wi-Fi and that he could not see what was wrong

  • Control Javascript Events in Firefox

    Firefox Mastery published a nice article about the Firefox add-on Controle de Scripts which lets the user control Javascript events in Firefox.

  • How to defeat Phishing

    Kurt mentioned in Daniel's PayPal phishing article how he dealt with phishing and that got me thinking about the easiest way to defeat phishing for certain acco