The Best Computer Security websites
General Computer Security
CERT Coordination Center
- www.cert.org
The CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) is a center of Internet security expertise, located at the Software Engineering Institute,
a federally funded research and development center operated by Carnegie Mellon University. The information ranges from protecting
your system against potential problems to reacting to current problems to predicting future problems.
Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC)
- www.ciac.org/ciac
The mission of CIAC is to apply cyber security expertise to prevent, detect, react to, and recover from cyber incidents for DOE/NNSA and other national stakeholders.
CIAC has been providing the U.S. Department of Energy with incident response, reporting, and tracking,
along with other computer security support since 1989.
Doshelp.com
- www.doshelp.com
Provides reviews and links to commercial firewall, anti-virus, intrusion detection software, and security sites.
Insecure.org - Nmap
- www.insecure.org/nmap
Nmap ("Network Mapper") is an open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. It was designed to rapidly scan large
networks, although it works fine against single hosts. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the
network, what services (ports) they are offering, what operating system (and OS version) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls
are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. Nmap runs on most types of computers, and both console and graphical versions are available.
Online Privacy Alliance
- www.privacyalliance.org
A group of corporations and associations who cooperate to promote business-wide actions to promote individuals' privacy online.
OnlinePrivacyStore.com
- www.onlineprivacystore.com
Online Privacy Store offers a comprehensive set of online tools to protect your privacy, security and anonymity at home, at work and on
the road. Online Privacy Store sells: Anonymizer Privacy Services, Firewalls, Cookie Eliminators, Anti-Spyware, Encryption Tools, Anti-Hacker Tools,
Email Security and other privacy and security tools and services.
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
- www.privacyrights.org
Nonprofit consumer education and advocacy project. Publications provide in-depth information on a variety of
informational privacy issues, as well as practical tips on safeguarding personal privacy.
Protect 2000
- www.wilders.org
This website offers very useful and quite interesting information about
security. Including topics for free security software, anti-viruses, anti-trojans,
firewalls, spyware, security software reviews, free services, free tools, downloads, news, security, forum, and more..
Anti-spam
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Browser Hijacking
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Content Filtering and Blocking
Net Nanny
- https://www.netnanny.com
Net Nanny offers the world's leading parental control software.
Net Nanny products are effective, easy-to-use, and innovative Internet utility products that provide responsible adults with the broadest
set of Internet safety tools available today. They give you control over what comes into and goes out of your home, school, library, or
business, while respecting your personal values and beliefs. They offer Net Nanny 5.0 (Child Safety Software), AD-FREE (Stops ALL Internet
Advertisements, not just pop-ups), POP-UP Scrubber (blocks popup and popunder browser windows and includes Internet privacy controls), ..
Cookies
EPIC Cookies Page
- www.epic.org/privacy/internet/cookies
A collection of cookies related standards, news, and resources, from a privacy perspective. By Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).
National Anti-Cookie League
- www.jdrn.com/nacl
Home page of the National Anti-Cookie League (NACL), an organization dedicated to the annihilation of internet-cookies and to the promotion of cookie-free web sites.
Firewalls
Audit my PC
- www.auditmypc.com
Audit your firewall with a free online Firewall Test, Port Scan and Privacy Test that provides immediate results designed to promote security
awareness and help secure your firewall. Perform a Port Scan on all 65,535 ports or choose your port scan range.
Home PC Firewall Guide
- www.firewallguide.com
Features information on security, personal firewall software and Internet security appliances for dial-up and broadband-connected
(xDSL and cable modem) home and SOHO computers. Also offers reviews of anti-virus and anti-Trojan products and software.
Shields Up - Personal Firewalls
- grc.com/su-firewalls.htm
Features FAQs, reviews, ratings, white papers, and tools to test Internet security and firewall vulnerabilities by Steve Gibson.
Zone Labs, Inc.
- www.zonelabs.com
The award-winning ZoneAlarm family of products is among the most popular and successful Internet security products available today while IMsecure Pro offers comprehensive
security for instant messaging.
Download the Free ZoneAlarm firewall or buy ZoneAlarm Pro.
Hoax and Chain Letters
McAfee Hoax page
- vil.nai.com/VIL/hoaxes.asp
McAfee Hoax page include virus hoax listings.