Short and sweet this month but I’m afraid the time has come when we have to be wary of even the lowly flashlight app. I’ve come across two recent items in the mainstream media about security threats for mobile devices I wanted to share with you for December’s post. First up, mobile devices in your office: The office environment is ...
Ah, the Ides of March, bad time for Caesar, bad time for your computer… This is the time of year when I see viruses, malware and Internet scams pick up. And it seems, at least for the last couple of years, that it’s the time I take my monthly post and devote it to reminding ...
By the end of 2013 there will be a major change coming to many of the secure web sites and mail servers on the Internet: effective January 1, 2014 all secure certificates used on the Internet will need to be upgraded from 1024 to 2048 bit encryption. For those of you who have no idea ...
Last month I spent a good portion of the week cleaning up after one of the worst cases of blacklisting I can remember during my twelve years with Skyway West (read a post of mine from last year on how to prevent your Outgoing Mail being tagged as spam). An employee of one of our ...
Great Infographic from the folks at FrugalDad. With most websites collecting user data, every person with a computer should be thinking about how to protect their sensitive information. The graphic includes some troubling statistics about just how much personally identifiable information is floating around unprotected on the Internet. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon recently found they ...
I try to maintain a certain level of anonymity when I’m browsing the web, and when I talk with friends or clients about privacy and internet security I encourage them to do the same. If I’m browsing to your web site and I’m intending to purchase a product from your business, you’ll need information like ...
”It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” If you’re a Lord of the Rings fan, you know that Bilbo is giving Frodo good advice. For you and I, or our businesses ...
