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Safety Scanner
[May 15, 2008]

Microsoft's free service, Safety Scanner, part of the Windows Live OneCare product group, can scan, defrag, and clean files.


Tips for Securing WordPress
[May 08, 2008]

A hacked blog can be a PR nightmare. Stop it from happening to you by taking some precautions: Use SSL for administration, and set correct permissions.


The Event Log Query Utility
[May 02, 2008]

This HTML Application lets you query a variety of machines for a variety of event types.


Security Pro VIP--May 1, 2008
[May 01, 2008]

Learn about some options for securely transferring files and see what's coming this month on Security Pro VIP.



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Web Apps Are the Source of Most Vulnerabilities
[May 15, 2008]

A new report reveals that Web applications are the most common source of vulnerabilities. While this shouldn't come as much of a surprise given the importance of the Web, it should serve as an alarm for Web developers.


4 Microsoft Security Bulletins for May 2008
[May 14, 2008]

Microsoft released four security updates for May, rating three of them as critical. Here's a brief description of each update; for


New URI Scheme on the Horizon?
[May 14, 2008]

Browsers are rapidly becoming the tool of choice for all sorts of desktop acti


US And Canada Put A Damper On Hardware Pirates
[May 14, 2008]

Since 2005 U.S. and Canadian law enforcement agencies have sent 10 hardware pirates to jail and tens of thousands of counterfeit Cisco network routers, switches, interface cards, other modules



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Lavon Peters is the security editor for the Windows IT Pro publications. She has worked as a technical editor since 1994.

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