Unless there are any last minute show-stopping bugs, support for Mozilla Firefox 1.5 generation browser will officially end on May 30, 2007. This is a gentle reminder for those that are lagging behind in their upgrades to consider migrating to version 2 of Firefox soon. My transition was painless, a testament to the skills of […]

Firefox users keep more up to date concerning security updates than users of other browsers according to a recent survey done by Securnia. The numbers were rather interesting, and covered applications which did not have the latest security updates. Concerning web browsers, Firefox 2 users came in with a respectable 5.19% missing the latest security […]

Are you concerned about identity theft, phishing, and other online scams? Interested in a product and service to help secure your identity for online transactions? The ID Vault USB Smart Card Security Device may be your answer. It is a USB dongle that helps protect your ID using Smart Card technology. To use it is […]

I only yesterday mentioned an alternative to Windows Update, now there is another alternative you may want to consider. Windows Updates Downloader is a free utility that will download updates to many of Microsoft’s products so you can save them to a DVD-R or whatever. It is very easy to use, once you know how […]

One of the concerns I’ve heard numerous times over Microsoft’s Windows Update, is the concern over privacy. Many users are a bit troubled over the level of information that Microsoft may be gathering about themselves and their computers. Well, it would appear that there is an alternative.

Windiz Update is a website that offers Windows Update […]

Phishing is a growth industry for criminals, according to some recent alarming statistics. The average haul by criminals is going up, while the percentage of recoveries is going down.
According to Gartner analyst Avivah Litan the phishers are getting five times the amount they were, from and average of $257 in 2005 to $1,244 in 2006. […]

Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin has suggested that Windows Vista will not need extra security software. The comments were made during a conversation in which Allchin was responding to a question comparing the security of Windows XP and Vista.
Allchin’s comments were summed up as being that Vista’s “new lockdown features are so capable and thorough that […]

The ‘Macarena’ virus source code was released into the wild recently. It is a virus that is targeted at certain types of Mac OS X executables.
According to the ISC,
To be honest the virus is no big deal in itself. But it is yet another warning for a lot of parties involved.
This is fortunate […]