THE MAGAZINE

An incident at the U.S. Capitol underscores that no one should be above security.

Top 10 Performing Security Stocks for March 2006

people who receive at least one phishing e-mail every day on a work computer

Quarantining these laptops when they are attached to the network is a good way of preventing these backdoor attacks.

Every document file (for example, those such as .doc, .txt, .xls, and so on) could be sucked off your computer’s hard drive and onto an iPod in under two minutes, according to Abe Usher of Sharp Ideas, LLC, who created a proof-of-concept application to do just that.

Can regulatory compliance be reducing security? Plus, guidelines on media sanitization, more devious virus attacks, and quarantining mobile devices.

A 24-hour health club uses antitailgating devices as a way to exorcise freeloaders.

In an organized, logical fashion, the book leads the reader from an overview of risks to practical recommendations for personal safety.

The book is intended to serve as a guide to help security professionals develop a security audit plan, perform the audit, and implement the resulting recommendations.

Conventional wisdom, often cited, is that the longstanding conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors is a root cause of today’s terrorism.

Metrics can be created for virtually every security effort, the authors show. For the purposes of this book, they divide security metrics management into administrative security, physical security, and operations security.

The Software Vulnerability Guide was written to help software developers acquire the methods necessary to write secure code and find existing problems in current software.

One Web-based video camera system described in the book was released with a flaw that would allow a misspelled Web address to bypass all authentication mechanisms in the system, granting the user full administrative access to the devices.