Lock the doors and throw away the ethernet ports
When a computer is connected to a network to download the latest security patches for the first time, it is truly a sheep among the wolves. Recently I wrote about this and now CERT has taken the time to publish guidelines for new computer owners. After all as they point out, the time for an unprotected computer to be compromised is measured in minutes on many networks. Many probably do not make the correlation between home computers and UCE/SPAM, DDOS…