Loss of data is a common problem for businesses. Fortunately, it’s a problem that can easily be avoided with the correct preparation. While devastating amounts of data can be lost during catastrophes like hurricanes, the September 11 terrorist attacks, fires and floods – it doesn’t take such large events to cause a business to lose [...]
Have you ever worried about what information may be saved to your computer? Maybe you recorded a credit card number or a Social Security number and saved it somewhere, unprotected?
Free Windows utility, Identity Finder scans your hard drive looking for sensitive information, like credit card numbers and passwords. The utility will bring the information to [...]
I was contacted by a 13 News reporter recently and asked if he could interview me for a news story they were doing. This story was in light of Google’s recent admission that they collected data about unsecured wireless access points while taking pictures around Hampton Roads for Google’s “Street View” service. Long story short, [...]
One of the most common ways your computer can become infected with Malware, Spyware or Viruses is through a security vulnerability. What happens is that an unsuspecting user clicks on a malicious link. This malicious code is specially crafted to exploit a known security vulnerability in a commonly used component or application – in this [...]
The Internet began revealing its dangerous side more than a decade ago. As one veteran business analyst remarked, "Personal information on the Internet started turning into asbestos, becoming highly toxic. People started discovering a lot of it around."
Identity theft emerged, of course, and began ruining lives. Now, the analyst notes, "There are more obligations than [...]
On November 11th 2008 Microsoft released an advisory (MS08-068) detailing a vulnerability present in all currently supported versions of Internet Explorer – including beta versions of IE8. The exploitation technique is referred to as "SMB Reflection". There have been widespread reports of active exploitation of this vulnerability via Internet Explorer – including reports that the [...]
Most people are at-least vaguely aware that when files are deleted from a computer, they still remain around for an indeterminate amount of time. Essentially what is happening is that when the file is deleted, a bit is marked on the disk telling the file system that the next piece of data that needs to [...]
Several years back the industry went through what I can only call a "Spyware Explosion". All of the Spyware companies were exploiting the weak security present in the Internet browsing software of the time, resulting in massively compounded and ubiquitous Spyware infections. I felt like every other PC I worked on, I was removing Spyware. [...]
