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Security reports are rarely made headlines since people do not care unless they themselves are having the problems.  In a way, it’s doesn’t matter if you and I care about security or not, since our current premium security software from well known security vendors aren’t equipped to deal with the real sophisticated threats.  Not to undermine the threats of viruses and worms and malware, but the available security software in the market are only capable of weeding out the common security threats; it’s still so important to arm yourself with a well known security software to fight the common security threats since these are everywhere.

Highly sophisticated attacks that target specific organizations and groups of people are many steps ahead where normal security software from well known security vendors render somewhat useless.  Just recently, a report from a security firm NetWitness suggests that a new type of bot known as Kneber botnet has been successfully gathering amazing amount of information from various accounts of well known organizations and social network websites and government agencies around the globe.  It’s most likely that these big organizations and government agencies are using highly sophisticated and expensive security software, but it seems when come to security, it’s never enough to arm a network with even more security solutions.

For average people like all of us, what could we arm ourselves with to safeguard against major security threats?  Probably the best thing we could arm ourselves with is knowledge.  The knowledge of how to spot a security hole and how to be paranoid about network security.  Without such knowledge, one could be carefree  until the compromises made known.  The best practices that everyone of us could put into use to guard ourselves against major security threats are not to surf the web carelessly, use good security software, be mindful about downloads, avoid strange emails, learn more about the security from respected security websites, and warn other people about known security threats.