Security Paranoia

Have you ever wondered, where you stand in scale of "Security Paranoia" ?
I found this nice article on http://www.ladadadada.net/articles/security_paranoia_scale
It will be useful to measure where you stand. If you are below "4", I think that you got a very good reason to worry about LOT of security aspects.
I will suggest that you go […]

Estonia, Georgia, and now … Kyrgyzstan?
The central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan became the latest country to come under cyber attack from computers based in Russia, security researchers said this week. The denial-of-service attacks, which began on January 18, disrupted the networks of the two largest Internet Service providers in the country, and could be […]

Sometimes, we wonder that does IT security will ever end ? Can we say that "we have done enough" and we feel secured ? Obvious answer is "NO". It is never enough. Whatever we do, we will find need for more. That’s the hard reality of  Security Vs. Hacker world.  Unfortunately, hackers are smarter then […]

With the click of a mouse on one computer, the screen of the laptop a few feet away flashes wildly as a flood of data flies silently across a private network cable connecting the two machines. Within a minute the laptop’s file sharing password is compromised.
“The computer is having a bad day,” says a reporter […]

I wrote before that Yahoo IM has worm issues. Usually it is done through sending online or offline message containing malicious link.
ALWAYS be careful about clicking any link — Even if it is from most trustable person. Chances are — it was not sent by him.
After yahoo, now it is Skype’s turn — […]