On Sunday, the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister David Cameron and the Interior Ministry were forced to defend a sweeping wiretapping proposal, which would aim to monitor (which will be done by the lesser known GCHQ: Government Communications Headquarters) every single email, text message, and phone call flowing through the whole country. The proposal would likely force all [...]

If you’re used to working with version control systems like CVS, Subversion or Git in order to keep track of changes to your code, then you will be well aware that changes to binary files such as images, just can’t be tracked in the same way. Sure, there is no problem storing your binary data [...]

Phishing has been around for a while now. Longer than most of you think, and over the next year or so, its going to get worse. Can you detect a Phishing site or Scam? Are you protected… What is Phishing OK, for those of you who don’t know what phishing is, here’s a quick overview. [...]

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but it could also hide something more treacherous. Today, businesses wanting to guard against the potentially ultra-serious hazard of vitally important data being deliberately leaked to unauthorised people outside or even inside the organisation, need to get to grips with an alarming reality: a picture can also [...]

Your passwords are the keys you use to access personal information that you’ve stored on your computer and in your online accounts. If criminals or other malicious users steal this information, they can use your name to open new credit card accounts, apply for a mortgage, or pose as you in online transactions. In many [...]

The lack of sensory information on the Internet (like too many adults,  teenagers and younger kids with a Facebook or Myspace page or Twitter account) may have a significant impact on cyberstalkers,  “The absence of sensory-perceptual stimuli from a real person means that fantasy can play an even more expansive role as the genesis of [...]

Junk email may be costing your company more than you think; here’s how to add up the real costs. Spam may be cheap for the people who send it, but it can be a serious expense for your business. According to a study conducted earlier this year by Nucleus Research Inc., spam management costs Businesses [...]

For many people, the word “encryption” invokes images of spies, clandestine operations and World War II, or NSA code breakers feverishly working to decipher enemy messages in a Dan Brown novel. Actually, encryption is a priceless security tool that any business can easily use to keep sensitive information confidential and safe from prying eyes. You [...]

The Internet has shown that reputations are important but don’t have to be tied to specific real individuals. The entire banking system is built on top of the idea of reputation, but tries hard to tie them to real identities. The problem of identity theft is likely to break this connection. We will see a [...]