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Time magazine Internet Security Cover Story -- Pretty good overview.

E-Mail Snoopers' Powerful Tools Threaten Electronic Privacy -- Jeff Beard story at Law.com discusses "e-mail wiretapping." The moral? Turn off JavaScript features in your web browser!

Word Can Phone Home -- Jeff Beard explains how MS Word can be used to spy on users of Word documents, through the use of "web bugs."

MicroLaw Columns Guest Column - John Heckman Internet Security -- A good overview.

Privacy Practices of Web Browser Extensions -- Analyzes a leading source of "spyware."

Five tips to detect an email virus hoax -- Pretty good short summary from Loki Technologies, Inc., a consulting firm for lawyers in the Washington, DC area.

Stopping spywear -- A hot topic, and deservedly so.

Six Myths of E-mail Security

An E-mail Security Primer for Lawyers, in Two Parts:

	When And Why To Protect Your E-mail? (Part I)
	How to Protect Your E-mail (Part II)

The following two charts are still in "beta" (testing status). Comments are welcome:

	E-mail Security - Approaches -- Practical suggestions on how law firms can balance convenience vs. security needs and client desires.
	E-mail Security - Encryption Techniques -- Summary of the options for encryption in chart form.

Netlawtools Firewall Page

Bugbear Virus Update -- The latest Hall of Infamy candidate, brought to us by security vulnerabilities in Microsoft products.

MS Word Virus Alert -- Explains why Microsoft Word is extremely vulnerable to computer viruses, and what you can do about it. Consistently one of our most popular sections.

Bubbleboy Virus Changes the Rules -- More Microsoft vulnerabilities, these even more worrisome than Word macro viruses.