Newest Articles For System Security

How To Avoid Phishing Scams
By John Henry Xu - Tue Jul 12, 2005 9:27:09 PM ET
Online banking sites are under active scrutiny by fraudsters, who are keen to detect and exploit opportunities to run their frauds on banks?? own sites. Taking advantage of mistakes in applications and web site management, fraudsters have been able to run phishing scams on sites belonging to Visa, Mastercard, ...

Setting Up SSL for Apache 2.0
By Jack Xu - Sat Jun 25, 2005 10:52:51 PM ET
Apache 2.0 is the current version of Apache web server release. It has been widely used in many web sites. Apache is free. We will show the steps of installing SSL on Apache 2.0 in Linux/Unix systems. Although by using cygwin to run Unix programs on windows, Apache 2.0 is more secure running on Unix ...

Home PCs Rented Out in Sabotage-For-Hire Racket
By Steven Charles - Wed Jul 7, 2004 10:49:40 AM ET
LONDON - Vast networks of home computers are being rented out without their owners' knowledge to spammers, fraudsters and digital saboteurs, security experts said on Wednesday. The terminals have been infected by a computer virus, turning them into "zombies" -- slaves to the commands of a malicious ...

Virus-proof Your PC
By John Henry X - Tue Jul 6, 2004 2:57:25 PM ET
The antivirus company Sophos recently reported that it sighted 959 new viruses and worms on the Net in May. Some of them, like the Sasser worm that infected a million or so computers, connect to idle home desktops, rather than arriving as e-mail attachments. Others aren't viruses but sneaky "spyware" ...