If you're a WordPress.com user you'll want to be extra cautious the next time you're tempted to whip up a blog post from your local coffee shop. If anyone on the same open connection is using a networking sniffing tool like Firesheep, your WordPress.com account could be easily hacked.
Heartbleed has dominated tech headlines for a week now. News outlets, citizen bloggers, and even late-night TV hosts have jumped on the story, each amping up the alarm a little more than the last one. But while it's true Heartbleed is a critical flaw with widespread implications, several security experts we've spoken with believe the sky-is-falling tone of the reporting is a bit melodramatic.
Tony Bradley | 17 Apr | Read more
Recent headlines about shadowy government agencies, high-profile hack attacks, and your face in Google ads drive home a crucial point: Your online privacy is best protected when you keep an iron grip on the information you're handing out. If your info is on a server somewhere, it's not truly yours.
Caspar Bowden, who authored Microsoft's privacy policy between 2002 and 2011 for 40 countries, said this week that he distrusts his former employer and has gone so far as to ditch his mobile phone.
Mark Hachman | 30 Sep | Read more
A new California law gives minors the right to ask Web sites like Facebook, Google and Twitter to remove or hide any content they wish, essentially allowing kids to "scrub" their digital history before they enter the adult world.
Mark Hachman | 24 Sep | Read more
Your email address is like your home address: Never give it out unless absolutely necessary.
Rick Broida | 09 Jul | Read more
Shortened links are everywhere these days, especially on Twitter, where long Web addresses are at odds with the 140-character message limit.
Rick Broida | 05 Nov | Read more
The next new (vulnerable) thing
Simson Garfinkel | 13 Nov | Read more
This white paper explores how, with so much depending on web site availability, CSOs are considering new ways to be cost-effectively proactive and vigilant •Websites have become an incalculably valuable part of doing business and have redefined how enterprises are being run •Thanks to these news business models, organisations have a much broader awareness of how critical web services are •IDG research shows the majority of today's technology and security executives are concerned about web security