Five steps to successful and cost-effective penetration testing

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Whether you hire outside consultants or do the testing yourself, here are some tips for making sure your time and money are well spent. 1. Set goals. Make sure you know before you start your penetration testing what you want the results to encompass. Adding in too many systems can be ...

Additional Bitlocker Incident Response tips

Monday, April 21st, 2008

In January, I posted some Incident Response tips on how to deal with a Vista system with Bitlocker enabled. You can read the initial post here. I was recently doing some training and we discussed Bitlocker techniques in depth and decided to post a follow up with some additional tips. The ...

Solutions Superguide: 529 Tips for Better Computing

Monday, April 21st, 2008

There's a ton of information in your computer's user manual, but it's also hundreds of pages long. To become a real power user, you could read through the entire thing, memorizing the details on each page. Or you could turn to PC Magazine. For this very special feature, we'll boil down ...

Advice for securing your site and your reputation

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Is your company's Web site hacked? Today, it can be hard to tell. Online crooks who successfully break into a site often sneak in small bits of code that leave no visible trace but can attack visitors who simply view the page. In fact, according to a Websense Security Labs report, online thugs who want ...

How to simulate “No to all” when copying in Windows XP

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Ever had to copy a bunch of files from one location on your local hard drive to another place with a lot of files with the same name? Well there are really only two options that you have when there are files with the same name: either replace the destination ...