There are plenty of threats to secure personal computing. Just using the Internet at all exposes you to identity theft, spyware, viruses and other security risks. The question of the ... Read More

This is an example of a WordPress page, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. You can ... Read More

I have been working with David Pollino, Bill Pennington, Himanshu Dwivedi and a few others to create the newest version of the Hacker's Challenge series, Hacker's Challenge 3. The book ... Read More

If you have used email for more than a few minutes, odds are good that you have received an email, allegedly from eBay, Paypal, Chase Bank or some other entity, ... Read More

The day of pranks and practical jokes is approaching. For some, this is the "Superbowl" event of the year- bigger than Christmas, Halloween or the Fourth of July. Armed with ... Read More

Because social networking sites such as Myspace.com are designed for the sharing of personal information and the creation of new friends and acquaintances, it makes a ripe target for sexual ... Read More

News of a critical vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser has been circulating since last Friday. The zero-day exploit is the second flaw discovered in IE in the past ... Read More

With all of the media attention given to the music industry law suits against users who have illegally downloaded music, most people by now are familiar with the fact that ... Read More

For the most part, sticking to well-known, established web sites is a fairly simple way of staying on the safe side of the Internet. But, there are millions of web ... Read More

Earlier this week, former Yugoslavian leader Slobodan Milosevic died in his cell. He was being held in The Hague on trial for war crimes for his part in the bloodshed ... Read More

It seems like everyone is making toolbars these days. Perhaps someone needs to make a toolbox to hold all of the various toolbars? The new TrustedSource toolbar from CipherTrust works ... Read More

Ever since kids have used the Internet there have been threats to contend with. Social networking sites such as MySpace.com don't create a new problem, they just highlight the old ... Read More

An iPod is just one example of a portable storage device which could conceivably contain illegal or illicit data. Other thumb drives and USB storage devices could fall into this ... Read More

A New York Times article suggests that more and more people are connecting to the unprotected wireless networks of strangers and neighbors, a practice known as "piggybacking". It is certainly ... Read More

There is a new product available designed to help you surf the Web safer. SiteAdvisor is a free plug-in for the Internet Explorer or Firefox web browser applications which identifies ... Read More

Whenever a critical vulnerability or fast-spreading malware which affect one of the Microsoft operating systems is discovered, many turn to talk about how other operating systems or applications don't have ... Read More

There has been much hype in the past year regarding the Avian or Bird Flu and the potential for a worldwide pandemic if the virus mutates to a strain which ... Read More