Mike Foster’s IT Security & Best Practices Blog

On August 20, 2008, 154 people died when Spanair Flight 5022 crashed right after takeoff in Spain. A preliminary report, discussed in an article in the Spanish daily newspaper El Pais indicates that a diagnostic computer should have detected problems with multiple systems on the aircraft. Had the problems been detected, the takeoff would have […]

My wife and I were traveling a little over a week ago when we got a phone call that one of our immediate relatives dropped dead from a heart attack. He was standing in line at the pharmacy to get medicine his doctor just prescribed for “heart burn” and collapsed, unconscious, and his heart was […]

What happened to Twitter can happen at any company.  The attacker exploited common problems in many corporate networks.

I am in the business of helping you keep your computers safe. You need to know how easy it is for someone to take your data from you. Here is a video.