Roger A. Grimes - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Roger A. Grimes

Article | 18/11/2010 HoneyPoint: Honeypot for Windows, Linux or Mac

After over 10 years of active participation in the honeypot community, I was surprised not to have heard of MicroSolved's HoneyPoint Security Server b...

Article | 30/09/2010 An expert guide to Windows 7 security

Windows 7 has been warmly received and swiftly adopted by businesses, with the result that many IT admins are now struggling with the platform's new s...

Article | 16/07/2010 Finding gold in your log files

Considering how much valuable information is available in log files, you'd think more companies would pay attention to them. Workstations, servers, fi...

Article | 21/04/2010 The ultimate guide to Windows 7 security

Windows 7 has been warmly received and swiftly adopted by businesses, with the result that many IT admins are now struggling with the platform's new s...

Article | 17/11/2009 McAfee Application Control 5.0

McAfee's whitelisting protection for Windows, Linux, and Solaris is a software tool that allows network admins to restrict users' ability to mess up t...

Article | 31/01/2009 How secure is Safari?

Apple's Safari, released for the Windows platform in June 2007, is the second newest browser on Windows, behind Google's Chrome. (Naturally, Apple's b...

Article | 1/10/2008 Sandbox security versus the evil Web

The Internet is a scary place. Criminal malware lurks on legitimate and illegitimate Web sites alike, looking to steal your money one way or the other...

Article | 1/10/2008 Two tenacious exploits debunk vendor claims

Many sandbox security vendors claim that their products stop all known and unknown attacks. Even assuming the ability to curtail all known attacks cou...

Article | 3/09/2008 At the front lines of protecting the Internet

VeriSign is in many ways synonymous with managing the Web, thanks to its handling of key DNS root servers and of name resolution for .com, .net, and o...

Article | 30/06/2008 Hacking tools: A new version of BackTrack helps ethical hackers

Version 3.0 of BackTrack has been released. BackTrack is a Linux-based distribution dedicated to penetration testing or hacking (depending on how you ...

Article | 2/06/2008 Titus Labs helps stop e-mail slips

The news media is full of stories about e-mails and documents that were better off not sent. Last year an airline CEO accidentally sent an ultra harsh...

Article | 26/05/2008 Notes from AusCERT 2008

I've had the pleasure of speaking and attending this year's AusCERT 2008 security conference held in Gold Coast, Australia. If you've never been to Au...

Article | 19/05/2008 Defending "Fixing the Internet"

Last week I publicly released a white paper called Fixing the Internet: A Security Solution in this blog.

Article | 12/05/2008 Fixing the Internet

Long-time readers know that I often rant about how insecure the Internet is, and how few solutions will do anything to change that equation during the...

Article | 15/04/2008 Don't throw out ActiveX (or Java)

For years, many security consultants and well-meaning guidelines have recommended completely disabling ActiveX in Internet browsers (mainly Internet E...