Stop using Internet Explorer, Microsoft warns – Fix available
UPDATE: As of Thursday, May 1, Microsoft has issued a patch for Internet Explorer. It's available through Windows Updates, and the good news is they've included Windowx XP in the fix. Please note, however, that XP is still otherwise unsupported, and an upgrade to...
Will the Internet Become a Toll Road?
One of the key principles determining how the Internet operates is in danger. And it may disappear altogether if big corporations and the Federal Communications Commission have their way. The result could turn the information superhighway into a toll road, where...
Heartburn over Heartbleed
The online world is buzzing with concern over the latest big security scare - the Heartbleed bug. The problem is in a piece of critical, and widely used, encryption software called OpenSSL. The bug allows an attacker to sift through the short-term memory of a server...
Happy Twenty-Fifth Birthday, WWW!
Along with Southwest Cyberport's Twentieth Anniversary, there's another important one this March, one which made our birthday and so much else possible: that of the Web itself. The World Wide Web was first proposed in March of 1989. Tim Berners-Lee, a contractor at an...
Important Updates for Web-Publishers
If you own or run a website, there are a few new wrinkles you should know about. In the first place, the powers that be at ICANN who run the World Wide Web's all-important Domain Name System have instituted a new hoop for domain owners to jump through. Since January 1...
Start 2014 Safe with a Security Checkup
New Year’s annual reboot provides an excellent opportunity to review your overall security situation online. Though many people faced with recent revelations of government and corporate tracking and surveillance may despair of doing anything at all, Internet security...