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inadequate home computer security news
There's a lot of security news out there on the Internet but a lot of it is aimed at system administrators.
The Department of Homeland Security site http://www.us-cert.gov is not a lot of help for keeping up to date for home or non-technical users, even tho' they do have a number of general and helpful documents oriented to home users. But I'd hardly expect any site to want to take the responsibility to act even as a sort of informal clearing house for news on security vulnerabilities for home (consumer) computer users, too vague a field. There are too many sources for me to even begin to try to list them let alone evaluate. So far I've been using http://isc.sans.org [ Internet Storm Center ]. and http://www.eweek.com seems not too bad either (click topics, then scroll down and click security). Finding a security news source that has an RSS/XML feed is probably worthwhile, e.g.: eWeek Ziff Davis http://rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com/eweeksecurity.xml ISC feeds http://isc.sans.org/xml.html RSS feed readers not requiring install additional software: Firefox Thunderbird MS IE 7 (I assume) Opera (I assume) http://my.yahoo.com http://www.google.com/reader etc. There'd be enough alerts coming out every week that many news consumers would not want to have the feeds coming into an email mailbox, so a more 'transient' form of news such as RSS feed is perhaps more appropriate as a medium for consuming such news. If I had to choose between keeping my Internet apps (e.g. IM) and browser plug ins up to date (either manually or automatically [not always there]) OR having additional layer(s) of protection in the browser (e.g. NoScript and SiteAdvisor) I'd choose the latter as more trustworthy and robust (assuming firewall, anti-virus, and anti-spy already in place and up to date). DH |
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