links
articles
- Security Absurdity.com > Security Absurdity; The Complete, Unquestionable, And Total Failure of Information Security
- Community Comments & Feedback to Security Absurdity Article
The first link above is a very interesting and insightful article about the current state of computer security. I thoroughly advise anyone who uses a computer, whether you are an individual PC user or the IT director of a company, to read this article.
The article assesses the risks, covering spyware, phishing, trojans, viruses, worms, rootkits, spam, botnets, web vulnerabilities, denial-of-service attacks, active-x weaknesses, passwords, patch management, wireless networks, internal attacks, and more.
There is then an analysis of why these problems exist.
The second link above is a follow-up article continues on the same theme, but focuses more on possible solutions.
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links for schools
- PC Advisor: Consumer Vista support slashed by Microsoft
- Open Source Consortium: 122 MPs support OSS call
- Becta: Open Source Software in Schools
- ISO: ISO and IEC approve OpenDocument OASIS standard for data interoperability of office applications
- WashingtonPost.com: Critical Microsoft & Mozilla Patches for 2006
- Netcraft: Web Server Survey Archives
- Wikipedia: Google platform estimate
- Netcraft: New York Internet, Web.com and iWeb8 Most Reliable Hosting Companies In January 2007
- BusinessWeek.com: French Assembly Picks Ubuntu PC Linux
"UK government could save more than £600 million a year if it used more open source software"