Everyone wants to get a web host that is going to work for their website though not a lot of us will actually find the right one for them. That is the trouble with setting up a website; we can never be totally sure which web host is going to be the best one for us, we can’t actually know which is really going to work for us until we try them out and... Read More

Everything is going green today and that doesn’t what it is, it could be TV’s, computers and even energy and now people are turning to Green Web Hosting. Everything is truly green today and everyone really does want to help the environment improve so much but now even web hosting has become greener. The way that you can actually go greener is by... Read More

If you use the net on your computer, it’s just a matter of time before you get a virus. So, once you are infected, what can you do? Here are 10 steps to help you get security from computer viruses If you use the net on your computer, it’s just a matter of time before you get a virus. So, once you are infected, what can you do? Here are 10 steps... Read More

While speaking about web hosting server platforms two of the operating system majors are decreeing the market with their superpowers. With their individual technological strategies they have started a cold war of demand on server market. Provisioning customers at par standards both Windows and Linux servers are now ruling the hosting market with... Read More

For those of you who may not have seen it there is a very good paper partially by Microsoft Research and partially by Indiana.edu called Side-Channel Leaks in Web Applications: a Reality Today, a Challenge Tomorrow. Initially it really upset me off that this paper was written, not because it’s not excellent, but because it’s partially what... Read More

In regards to the previous post and the impending Blackhat speech with Josh Sokol, I thought I’d spend some time enumerating some of the possibilities for reducing the chatter over SSL/TLS that the browser introduces. There are a few things that an attacker generally doesn’t care about (not always, but generally). They generally don’t care... Read More

CAPTCHA is not a word itself; it’s an abbreviation which stands for Completely Automated Public Turing-test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. This full form well defines the purpose of CAPTCHA. Actually CAPTCHA is used as a simple puzzle hurdle, which restricts various automated programs to sign-up E-mail accounts, cracking passwords, spam ... Read More

Today, many people rely on computers to do homework, work, and create or store useful information. Therefore, it is important for the information on the computer to be stored and kept properly. It is also extremely important for people on computers to protect their computer from data loss, misuse, and abuse. For example, it is crucial for businesses... Read More

Browser security continues to be an absolutely vital part of providing safety and privacy to end-users and their systems. Browser-based attacks are easily the most common threat on the Internet today. Attacks range from old-style traditional exploits like buffer-overflows to modern, sophisticated attacks like Active-X injection, drive-by downloads of... Read More

Like many other professions that have a security dimension, information security professionals are (or at least, should be) trained to deal with crises. Excellent training is available from many sources, one of which is the SANS institutes security 504: Hacker Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling. Since I am a mentor for 504, I feel that I am... Read More