Cell phone leave education and experience off your resume isn't a new problem. It's where someone sends a text message from one phone and makes it look like it is from a phone you know -- phishing ... More >
March 1 is days away. If you do business with people from Massachusetts, the month might arrive like a lion -- and not because of another Nor'easter. March 1 is the deadline date for a new state l... More >
Despite the HIPAA privacy law, despite increase awareness, and even despite all of the negative publicity generated from the run on any one of several platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings in the c... More >
The abstract of Zscaler 's State of the Web report for the fourth quarter of 2009 doesn't pull any punches. The first lines state: Attackers are no longer targeting web and email servers. Today, the... More >
I suppose with the Olympics dominating the sports pages this week, it is a logical parallel that the Zeus Trojan is headlining security news. The Wall Street Journal reported on the Zeus Trojan, ak... More >
At the end of last year, I talked a bit about Cyber Challenge , a contest where hacking skills could lead to security jobs. Another annual contest comes up in March, the Pwn2Own 2010 to test hac... More >
In the 21st century, I think we can add to Ben Franklin's ultimate certainties of death and taxes . . . and that will be the need to the creation of yet another silo of computing platforms . ... More >
the creation of yet another silo of computing platforms can lead to vulnerabilities, like the recent problems with Flash . According to Tim Greene's Network World article , that's why three... More >
Last month, IT Business Edge reported on the guilty pleas by several men who committed identity theft. Unfortunately, the men are part of a growing trend. Javelin Strategy and Research released its... More >
Earlier I pointed out the importance of making sure you remain up-to-date on patches , as recommended by Kevin Prince at our Network Security Edge site. My colleague here at IT Business Edge, Paul... More >
Love it or hate it, one thing is true: Social media applications are here to stay, at least through the foreseeable future. Gartner recently announced its five social media software predictions fo... More >
Since my run-in with the Antivirus Live attack , I’ve been hyper-vigilant on virus and malware scans on my computer, especially any time my computer seems sluggish. Getting hit with some kind... More >
Interesting news coming from the United Kingdom – the UK’s government has no plans to switch from using IE6 , despite a vulnerability in the browser that was exploited by hackers. Exploitin... More >

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