Why can email attachments be dangerous? Some of the characteristics that make email attachments convenient and popular are also the ones that make them a common tool for attackers: Email is easily circulated – Forwarding email is so simple that viruses can quickly infect many machines. Most viruses don’t even require users to forward the [...]
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Reducing Spam
April 30th, 2010 · No Comments · How To Keep Secure, Internet, Introductions
What is spam? Spam is the electronic version of “junk mail.” The term spam refers to unsolicited, often unwanted, email messages. Spam does not necessarily contain viruses—valid messages from legitimate sources could fall into this category. How can you reduce the amount of spam? There are some steps you can take to significantly reduce the [...]
Tags: email·junk mail·spam·spamming·unsolicited email·unwanted emails
Expert guide to preventing PC disasters
April 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Advanced Topics, How To, How To Keep Secure, How To Maintain, Tips & Techniques
We’ve all experienced it. One minute you’re surfing along quite happily, an MP3 playing in the background, and then suddenly – bang! Disaster strikes. Maybe your hard disk has failed; perhaps a virus has found its way round your defences and brought Windows to its knees; or it could be that your PSU has given [...]
Tags: back up·data recovery·hard drive failure·Malware·PC disaster·PC trouble·virus attack
Managing the Root Password on Your Mac
April 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Advanced Topics, How To, How To Keep Secure, Q & A, Technology, Tips & Techniques
The basic situation on a Macintosh running OS X is not unlike Windows Vista with User Account Control (UAC) still enabled: you are stripped of your admin rights, the root or admin account is disabled, and you are prompted to elevate your rights when you do something that requires admin privileges. In Windows Vista, you [...]
Tags: MAC Password·Managing Password·Managing Root Password·Password·Root Password·sudo command·UAC·User Account Control
Securing OCS with ISA Server
April 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Advanced Topics, How To, How To Keep Secure, Tips & Techniques
Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 R2 provides powerful capabilities that allow you to extend your Unified Communications infrastructure to users outside of your organization. This can have tremendous benefits. Functionality such as Web and audio/visual (A/V) conferencing, for example, can improve an organization’s responsiveness and effectiveness in its daily business tasks. If you choose to [...]
Tags: Configuring ISA Server·Edge Servers·ISA·ISA Server·OCS certificates·Reverse Proxy·Securing OCS
Improve Your Web Security With Encryption And Firewall Technologies
April 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Concepts, How To, How To Keep Secure, Internet, Q & A, Technology, Tips & Techniques
If you’re like most IT professionals, your work life is an ongoing balancing act in which you aim to adopt the latest technological innovations while keeping your enterprise secure. So you welcome any software that makes the whole process easier. Fortunately, security features in IIS, ISA Server, and secure sockets layer (SSL) can all be [...]
Tags: encryption·firewall·Firewall Technologies·IIS·IIS Certificates·Improve Web Security·Internet Security and Acceleration·ISA Server·SSL·Web Security·Web traffic
Serving the Web
April 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Advanced Topics, Concepts, How To, How To Keep Secure, Internet, Tips & Techniques
Securing your IIS 6.0 installation is an important task. The amount of work required can vary greatly depending on the complexity of your application as well as your infrastructure and how these combine with your need to secure content. Too often, Web server security is seen as merely a series of steps taken to tighten [...]
Tags: IIS·IIS Security·Internet Information Services·Securing IIS·Web·Web Security·web server·Web Server Security·Web Services