http://www.tech-faq.com/blog News and Views from The Tech FAQ Team Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:25:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the difficulties faced by IT security professionals is keeping up with the latest security vulnerabilities in operating systems, databases, and applications. If an attacker knows a vulnerability and you don't, your may not be able to effectively defend against the new vulnerability. This is especially true of applications ... http://www.tech-faq.com/blog/security-vulnerabilities.html Comodo Inc., a security company which makes its income by releasing SSL certificates, and which has also taken up security software development, has released version 3 of its free firewall - Comodo Firewall Pro. Comodo Firewall Pro(CFP) is a firewall distributed at no charge for both home and corporate use, ... http://www.tech-faq.com/blog/comodo-firewall-pro-30-a-powerusers-dream-come-true.html Ever had the need to turn a dynamic disk into a basic disk, perhaps to install an OS on it, and did not want to have the entire data on it erased? It's actually kind of dumb that you can convert basic drives to dynamic drives without data alteration, but ... http://www.tech-faq.com/blog/converting-a-ntfs-dynamic-disk-back-into-a-basic-disk-without-having-to-erase-data.html To open a port in Comodo Firewall Pro 3.0, bring up the interface, go to the Firewall tab, under Advanced select Network Security Policy, and click the Global Rules tab. Select "Add..." and complete the window as follows. Action: Allow Protocol: TCP or UDP Direction: In/Out Source Address: Any Destination Address: Any Source port: Any Destination ... http://www.tech-faq.com/blog/opening-a-port-in-comodo-firewall-pro-3.html Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.10 was released just a few days ago. The updated version of the popular browser addresses several highly-critical vulnerabilities, not all of them new. Looking down on the history of the past 10 2.0.0.x releases one can see just how many holes were patched out of a browser ... http://www.tech-faq.com/blog/mozilla-firefox-releases-giving-a-glimpse-into-the-true-nature-of-it-security.html Windows Vista was approaching the market with a promise to improve security more than anything. Wether it did or didn't succeed in that, it sure made a lot of users angry. Many complained about performance issues, hardware requirements, and overall slower response than that of XP. Now users are caught ... http://www.tech-faq.com/blog/the-lowdown-on-windows-vista-and-sp1.html Everyone's buzzing around snooping for any bit of information on the upcoming Vista SP1 and SP3, well on a more immediate basis, Microsoft released their monthly patch bulletin today for Windows OSs. Aside from the usual Malicious Software Removal Tool, this December's Patch Tuesday, last of the year, most notably ... http://www.tech-faq.com/blog/last-patch-tuesday-of-the-year-we-have-a-service-pack.html Windows Vista SP1 was released to the public yesterday. Microsoft is offering the most discussed Service Pack of the year in near-final stage to the public. Anyone who wants to give it a go can visit this page and follow the instructions on there. The download is a small batch ... http://www.tech-faq.com/blog/windows-vista-sp1-public-release-candidate-it-fails-me.html Despite my objections on the forum at the time even though I had no issues with Comodo Firewall Pro 3, the program was released containing a number of compatibility/stability issues and bugs for many configurations, ranging from network access issues to behaveior and UI. Comodo Inc. has released an updated ... http://www.tech-faq.com/blog/comodo-firewall-3014276-fixes-many-bugs.html Late and coming to you through a YourFreedom proxy that isn't giving out DNS errors like pretty much everything else is, and a much-delayed post squeezes through two million years later. My internets are metastising thanks to my crappy ISP and their lack of action, but my computer has been ... http://www.tech-faq.com/blog/aol-instant-messenger-messing-up-windows-vista-systems.html