by Mark Costlow | Apr 9, 2014 | News, Security
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...
by jnelson | Dec 31, 2013 | News, Security
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...
by jnelson | Oct 9, 2013 | How the Net Works, News, Security, Warnings
Since this summer, a number of disturbing news reports have come out that highlight the amount of ongoing surveillance of the Internet by the National Security Agency. Mainly due to leaks to leaks from former NSA contractor, Edward Snowden, these have outlined a huge...
by jnelson | Jul 18, 2013 | How the Net Works, Interesting Items, News, Security
In the wake of ongoing revelations of online government surveillance, what many observers have suspected is now shown to be true. As Google CEO Eric Schmidt once famously said: there is no anonymity in the future of the Web. As the head of one of the companies chiefly...
by jnelson | Jun 14, 2013 | How the Net Works, News, Security, Warnings
Unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock lately, you know that recent revelations of the vast extent of government surveillance of the Internet and users have lit up a world wide firestorm. The brouhaha will doubtless continue, and further revelations are bound...
by jnelson | May 22, 2013 | How the Net Works, News, Warnings
When hackers boast of their exploits, they often claim that they had only the good of the victim at heart – no matter what kind of mischief they’ve been up to. They usually innocently say that they are exposing how they accomplished whatever remarkable invasion...
