Computer Safety & News

FireCAT is a special security tool kit for the Mozilla Firefox environment FireCAT 2.0 Released http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=11365 FireCAT: Firefox Catalog of Auditing exTensions version 2.0 has just been released. It contains 90 addons divided in 7 categories further subdivided in 19 sub-categories. A new Protection subcategory (in Misc) has been added to protect Navigation with TrackMeNot, […]

MoonSols – Releases FREE Dumpit utility http://isc.sans.edu/diary/MoonSols+Dumpit+released+for+free+/11362 QUOTE: The people over at MoonSols have made their amazing one-click memory dump tool Dumpit available for free download.  Dumpit vastly simplifies memory acquisition. Effectively Dumpit combines win32dd and win64dd into one tool and is so simple to use even a non-technical user could do acquisition from a […]

I’ve been using a PC on a daily basis for almost 30 years.  I remember the original product launch and was invited to our local IBM branch office to participate. Our IBM branch then placed a few of these in our office.  I took in interest and powered them up after hours.  Soon I was helping […]

Larry Zeltser’s blog shares a comprehensive list and overview of cloud based AV products: Anti-Virus Cloud based Products http://blog.zeltser.com/post/9050002966/antivirus-vendors-cloud-capabilities QUOTE: I spent some time exploring publicly-available information about common antivirus products to understand how the vendors describe and position their cloud capabilities. Here’s the gist of what I found, in case you want to dig […]

Excellent security advice for Facebook and other social networking environments: Facebook and Social Networking – 11 Best Practices http://blog.zeltser.com/post/8503487922/11-social-networking-security-tips QUOTE: As a handy guide, respected security expert Lenny Zeltser has devised 11 Security Tips For Online Social Networking. Many of these are variations on general-purpose best practices, but they’re all good advice. Having covered the […]

Key links include: Mozilla Firefox version 6 released http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/ Mozilla Firefox version 6 support http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/home Mozilla Firefox version 6 new features http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features/ Mozilla Firefox version 6 security http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features/#advancedsecurity