Blogger Hiding Behind an IP?

In an interesting Federal Case, a blogger is hiding and refusing so far to acknowledge a subpoena. Information Week reports that a blogger named "Pamela Jones" is bashing a software company SCO about filing suits against competitors. The suits maintain that IBM and Novell open source software contains SCO's proprietary source code while IBM and Novell deny it. Dallas Computer Repair is used to dealing with hackers hiding but bloggers? Can't they find her IP address. Pamela Jones has a website, www.groklaw.net...and she can't be tracked down? Hogwash.

Firewalls are Today's Necessity

A study from the University of Maryland reported that computers connected to the internet were attacked about every 39 seconds resulting in 2,244 attacks per day. The anti-virus company, Sophos, reports that many of the malware coming into computer systems are now trojans versus viruses which represent a 4-to-1 ratio respectively. Firewalls are now becoming a necessary front in warding off difficult to stop malware.

The first line of defense is protecting the perimeter with a hardware firewall.