US CERT Security Tips

The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) publishes security tips about twice a month. They are brief and most of them are well-written. The topics they deal with are practical and timely. You can see tips dealing with:

• Passwords
• Firewalls
• Anti-virus software
• Spam
• Hoaxes
• Instant messaging
• Pfishing
• Spyware
• Digital signatures
• Browser security settings

. . . as well as many other topics. You can receive notice about new tips either by email (http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/signup.html) or via RSS (http://www.us-cert.gov/channels/index.html).