Tuesday - January 6, 2009
The revelation Monday that 33 accounts on the Twitter social networking site had been hacked, while others were compromised by a phishing scam over the weekend, highlights what cyber criminals can do. Accounts belonging to Britney Spears, Barack Obama and CNN's Rick Sanchez were hacked, using tools normally accessible only to Twitter's technical support team for the purpose of letting locked-out subscribers reset their e-mail addresses.
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Saturday - January 3, 2009
One of the main reasons Windows users switch to the Macintosh is to escape the constant onslaught of malware. Viruses, Trojans and spyware are a constant threat to the Windows ecosystem. Apple touts the Mac as being a haven from malware, and certainly in the past that's been the case. But the past is no guarantee of what will happen in the future.
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Tuesday - December 30, 2008
An international group of independent security researchers announced Tuesday that they have found a significant weakness in the Internet digital certificate infrastructure used by many Internet businesses. The flaw could conceivably allow cybercriminals to create fake certificates that would then be accepted and trusted by many widely used Internet browsers.
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Saturday - December 27, 2008
The game has changed for retail. In an era of increasingly competitive online business, failing corporate giants and consumer fear over the state of the economy, it's clear that small online retailers will face an uphill battle over the next several months. The good news is, e-commerce may be the one bright light in an increasingly dismal world of retail, and there are steps retailers can take to improve profits online.
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Tuesday - December 23, 2008
Lorrie Thomas does not "sell, share or whore out" the personal information of any visitor who comes to her Lorrie Thomas Web Marketing site -- and she backs up this no-share promise in her privacy statement. Indeed, the entire document is a straightforward description of what the company will and will not do with personal data.
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Saturday - December 20, 2008
Worried your daughter's new boyfriend might have a nefarious past? Want to know whether the job applicant in front of you has a rap sheet? Finding out can be a mouse click away, thanks to the growing crop of searchable online databases run directly by states. Vermont launched its service Monday, and now about 20 states have some form of them.
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Friday - December 19, 2008
Looks like Santa visits cybercrooks too. Their present this year was a big, fat security hole in many widely used versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The critical vulnerability allowed remote code execution if an Explorer user visited a specially crafted, malicious Web page. That translated into the potential for big-time credit card fraud and identity theft.
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Thursday - December 18, 2008
Enterprise application whitelisting company Bit9 launched an attention-getting press release last week, a document which merely bubbled for a few days until the recent Internet Explorer flaw took center stage and Mozilla pushed out a few Firefox updates. Eventually, the heat under the issue boiled over, prompting Mozilla to tackle the Bit9 report on its Mozilla Security Blog.
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Thursday - December 18, 2008
Microsoft released a fix Wednesday that should protect Internet Explorer users from a zero-day exploit that emerged last week and rapidly evolved into a major attack vector for cybercriminals and hackers. The vulnerability, rated "critical," affects Internet Explorer 5.01, Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 6 SP 1 and Internet Explorer 7.
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Wednesday - December 17, 2008
Yahoo announced Wednesday that it is enacting a new global data retention policy. In most instances, the Internet search engine and portal will now anonymize user log data within 90 days. After a three-month time period has elapsed, Yahoo will scrub out any data -- such as IP addresses, cookies and other information -- that would potentially enable someone to identify a given user.
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Tuesday - December 16, 2008
There was a slight kerfuffle in Mac-land as December began, when Apple released -- and then withdrew -- a technical note suggesting that Macintosh owners should get and use multiple versions of anti-virus software to protect their systems. The "KnowledgeBase" article was removed from Apple's online services within 24 hours of its gaining media attention.
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