This is actually very old, but it definitely worth bringing up, especially for people who own websites with sensitive data on them.  A lot of people think of Google just as a great search engine where they can type in a search word or phrase to get information on it.  But what a lot of […]

Due to a critical flaw in HP laptops in a certain .dll file, hackers and the like can can compromise a system through taking advantage of ActiveX scripting.  Unfortunately, there is no fix for it yet, but hopefully we will see one by the end of the year.  Just be smart and don’t click on […]

You know when the FBI is getting more involved with cyber crime when they put someone on their most wanted list for hiring some hackers to take down a competitors website.  It wasn’t just the competition that suffered though: because of the damage the hackers did to this competing website, Amazon.com as well as Department […]

The results of this report were very interesting and honestly surprised me. Not only were malicious tactics covered, but the report also talked about secure operating systems and browsers. This report seems to be changing the paradigm on a couple of things: Internet Explorer will become more secure than Firefox and the idea […]

A study recently conducted by Sophos revealed that Pharming scams have increased sixfold since the beginning of this year. In addition, about 80% of all malware based on the web comes from legitimate sites that have been compromised. Facts and figures like these just go to show you that you can never be […]

When it comes to websites, a lot of people are lured in by two features: (1) Price and (2) Services. Understandably though, many people do not need to spend much money since they just want to host a personal or small website, but does that mean you should go with a cheap web host? […]

This actually came as a surprise to me, but it really does make sense. Once word got out on Firefox in terms of its ease of use and security, people started converting over to it like crazy. Everyday that went by lead to all the more people converting from their IE browsers to […]

Well today, I am happy to say that I am not with dreamhost when it comes to hosting my websites. It sounds like some third party was able to access over 3,500 FTP accounts from dreamhost’s user base. Using the accounts they acquired, they supposedly compromised about 20% of those sites by modifying […]

McAfee just released a report regarding search engine safety, and the results are pretty interesting. One thing that caught my eye was the fact that Google, which serves about 35% of the search population (making it the most popular engine to perform searches on), does not have the highest percentage of returning risky results. […]

For all of you Firefox users out there; Verisign just released an add-on for Firefox that will identify the level of security on websites. While it sounds like a grand idea, there is still one major problem with it; it only works with Verisign certified websites. Websites that have acquired certificates from other […]