I get this question all the time – how do you stay safe and secure online?  It’s a loaded question with many possible answers.  I’m going to outline five ways you can considerably help yourself …

It’s about time Twitter started to ramp up their security features.  Spam and malicious software has been spreading through Twitter like wild fire the past several months.  It has gotten to a point where it …

Believe it or not AIM scammers are still around.  I was a little surprised when my brother came calling for me because he supposedly got an IM claiming he was infected with malicious software and …

Comodo, the security software company known for their array of products including the very popular Comodo Personal Firewall has recently made a deal with HopSurf to install their toolbar with every installation of Comodo Personal …

Logging in to our computers or various web services is a normal routine we all go through every day.  Each of us probably has half-a-dozen usernames across the web, with at least double that in …

In a recent post on the TrendLabs blog, Robert McArdle made note of a particular string that certain malware has been using as part of its encryption routine. The string reads as, Poshel-ka ti …

You may or may not be aware, but every time you log in to GMail you pass through an HTTPS, or Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, connection.  HTTPS is a combination of the regular HTTP and …

According to sources, Microsoft is already in the trial stages of their own anti-virus software, with the beta on its way.  Microsoft is calling the software “Morro” and will be its second shot at security …

Earlier this week Amazon opened its Kindle publishing platform to all blogs allowing bloggers to create a feed for their blog in the Amazon system. This allows bloggers to setup a RSS feed which …

Due to the YouTube 10 minute video limitation the interview had to be separated into two separate videos:
I interviewed Bruce Harrison who is a developer at Malwarebytes – the company who created Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware. We …

Windows Vista – two words that make many PC users cringe.  Ok, so aside from possible issues that may have occurred before the release of Service Pack 1 (SP1) which has dramatically increased performance, reliability, …

Skype has released an update to their popular software application which fixes the vulnerability allowing the execution of a malicious script on a users machine.
Skype uses the Internet Explorer web control to render HTML from …

PCButts1 is now at it again, you may have seen some of ‘his’ (and I use that word very loosely) software. PCButts1 has supposedly started taking software from the volunteers that work hard in …