IT Toolbox has a great little summary of the experiences of Mike Kavis, a guy who's been living Microsoft free in an all Microsoft shop - at work! It all started from an "eat your own dog food" challenge (something i did with my wife which finally precipitated the switch to Linux on her part). Check out his other articles in the series:

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CSO Magazine recently released a bunch of really useful security resources. Check them out:

• 10 essential (and free!) security downloads for Windows
• Five free penetration testing tools
• Five steps to successful and cost-effective penetration testing

CSO Online has a great little article about why you shouldn't trust web mail. Check it out and have a good long think about what they say!

Linux Journal has an interesting article about how to set up Linux for your grannie. There are some great ideas to consider there.

I recently found IT Security's list of the 25 most common mistakes in email security.

It an interesting read, although not necessarily all of the advice is up-to-date. For example, blacklisting spam sender addresses is useless these days - every spam i've ever seen uses a fake sender address. But the principle still holds: you should mark a spam message as junk rather than deleting it.

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A lot of my work involves network tracing (hence my recent wiki page), and it would be great if i could do this with a really simple, transportable device. Ideally it would have these characteristics:

• Pocket-sized, lightweight
• Two Gigabit Ethernet ports configured as a bridge, so that it can be placed inline on any network connection without affecting traffic flow.
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Michael Reed has a good piece on his experiences in moving his mother from a Windows-based PC to Ubuntu Linux. The result? Amazingly successful, although it did take some tweaking on his part.

It appears a spambot has found one of my personal domains attractive.

Despite this, i've received no spam that has actually made it through my SpamAssassin/Thunderbird setup. The lessons i've been learning about this recently have led me to create a wiki page about it.

From http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/info/everest.aspx:

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio’s electronic voting systems have “critical security failures” which could impact the integrity of elections in the Buckeye State, according to a review of the systems commissioned by Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner.

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Now this is just plain bizarre:
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