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I have been briefly following a certain forum thread on anti-virus protection for the Mac, and I am honestly quite shocked that there are Mac users who still believe, to this day, that their Macs are safe from malware. I felt ...
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SCADA, or Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition, security breaches are not often heard about. At least, not at the same level of other sorts of computer crimes. But SCADA has the potential to impact the physical environment, ...
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Let me guess. You might have heard of ESET, but you’re not very familiar with their products? Well, you could be forgiven, because they’ve got just 2% share of Singapore installations and 9% share of the global ...
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At a security class yesterday, the trainer asked if we access Facebook with the Facebook App on our mobile phones. Most of us do. More importantly, do we use Wifi while doing so? As you know, Wifi traffic can be easily snooped, ...
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What do we really know about safe computing? I was reading an ISC2 blog post “Practice Safe Computing” recently, and it preached several practices that we should all adopt to use our computers safely. It’s ...
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I recently renewed a bunch of SSL certificates. I actually use a reseller, Namecheap.com, but the actual SSL certificate authority is RapidSSL. I’ve bought RapidSSL’s SSL certificates for several years. They are cheap ...
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It looks like Chrome has decided today that HardwareZone site contains malware, and presented me with this warning when I was trying to access the site. Details on the Google Safe Browsing Diagnostic page indicate that 3 pages ...
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Sometimes, I think we’re doomed. Our IT, our cyberspace, they all belong to hackers. Hackers of the bad sort. The world is at their mercy. It’s one thing for the layman to be lost and give up in defeat. But it’s ...
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Many people are still not getting it. IT security has to be a fundamental component in any IT application. It’s not something you can easily slap on later. But still every so often, when I talk to “IT ...
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It seems quite surprising to me to learn about this. After all, didn’t Firefox try to market itself as the safer, more secure alternative to browse the web than Microsoft Internet Explorer? Furthermore, considering that ...