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Old June 10th, 2007, 02:57 AM
jdh jdh is offline
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Default 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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