The recent stories of massive “botnet” takedowns and the Microsoft coup d’état have brought to light the national state of cybersecurity. One of the more significant aspects of the Microsoft’s victory over the Rustock botnet is the cross agency collaboration that included the US Marshall’s office, the University of Washington, and a private security company. [...]

We geeks are so comfortable batting around those techie terms, we often get accused of having a blind spot: not explaining what those terms mean. Especially to the common home user, who is definitely not a geek but just wants to surf the web in peace. And yet, conversely, it is the common home user [...]

Whether you have a home server setup or run a small business, anywhere where you have two or more computers connected together, there you have a network. And any point at which that network connects to the outside Internet, there you have a potential security compromise point. While network security is a deep subject, there [...]