Security at Your Fingertips - Part 5 of 5  

Category: Security

This is it, the last part of our ongoing series of Security at Your Fingertips. 

Today's feature isn't going to focus on tools, but rather where you can get security information.  Keeping up-to-date is a must in today's world and it's very easy to get lost in the sea of knowledge.  Where do you go to find out about the latest threats?  How do you mitigate the latest threats?  Those are some of the questions we will answer here.

Your First Stop - Microsoft
In the 90's and throughout the first few years of the new century, Microsoft got one black eye after another in regards to security.  I remember when buffer-overflow attacks against Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0 (IIS), the web server that came as part of Windows 2000, was an almost daily thing.  But I would dare say that in the year 2003, Microsoft started really turning the tables aga...