Security

iPhone Found to Store Location Data: Is it a Big Deal?

by Mike Mansell April 21, 2011

Yesterday technology news was filled with stories regarding the Apple iPhone and the fact that it has recently been discovered to store a history of location coordinates. This news came after technology researchers Pete Warden and Alasdair Allan discovered a somewhat hidden file on the device while doing research for an entirely different project. Immediately after [...]

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Comodo Data Breach Gives Web Users A Slap of Reality

by Mike Mansell March 25, 2011

As Internet users, we have always been taught to be mindful of the sites we visit, as some of them may very well be designed specifically to lure unsuspecting visitors into a fraudulent trap. Asides from checking the URL of the site that one is on or logging into, one of the biggest “rules” for [...]

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What Is OAuth and How Can it Make the Internet Safer?

by Keaton Taylor March 24, 2011

Over the last few months I’ve been working on discovering the functionality of the OAuth standard. OAuth (Open Authorization) is an open standard for authorization. It allows users to share their private resources (e.g. photos, videos, contact lists) stored on one site with another site without having to hand out their credentials, typically a username and password. So [...]

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New OS X Trojan Makes Users Take a Second Look at Security

by Mike Mansell March 1, 2011

Over the last several years as Apple‘s Mac OS X operating system has grown in popularity and user-base, it has become well-known for being a very secure operating system that saw a minimal amount of viruses. With this reputation under its belt, some people have even gone as far as to proclaim that OS X [...]

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Kaspersky Mobile Security: Snake Oil to Cure Our Mobile Paranoia?

by Mike Mansell February 25, 2011

In the world of computer and Internet security, Kaspersky is relatively well-known for its vast user-base and extensive line of anti-virus products for home and small business users. Over the last several years, Kaspersky has produced a number of widely used security products for personal computers. One of their lesser-known products, however, has been aimed [...]

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Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware Finds Over 32,000 Infections On A Single Computer.

by Jeff Weisbein February 12, 2011

We all know how much of a problem malware can be on the Internet and computers in general these days. I just found this picture on the front page of reddit which clearly demonstrates how important it is to have a good anti-malware program installed on your computer. Check out the results from a complete [...]

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Is Your Mobile Phone a Target for Malware?

by Mike Mansell February 8, 2011

Viruses and malware have always been big issues for computer users as a whole. These malicious applications aim at making our computer experiences less productive and flat-out annoying, and it seems as if we have all dealt with these intrusions at one point or another. As it stands now, even though anti-malware products have become a multi-billion [...]

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How “Trusted IDs” Could Revolutionize Privacy

by Mike Mansell January 10, 2011

In between the latest viral videos, most of us use our computers and our connections to the Internet in order to attend to business. Be it finances, online banking, shopping, or important communications, the fact of the matter is that in the last decade or so computers and the Internet have become the backbone for [...]

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Are You a Walking Target for Identity Theft?

by Mike Mansell December 24, 2010

Identity theft – the action in which another individual impersonates you in order to defraud an organization or yourself – is not a new concept by any stretch of the imagination. In 1964 when the term “identity theft” was first coined, the majority of fraud incidents involved individuals who physically stole identification and documents in [...]

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Advanced: Mac Security Guide

by Keaton Taylor October 20, 2010

If you have not already read The Basics: Mac Security, now would be the time to ensure you have a complete understanding of the basics. In the previous article we discussed the basics in Mac Security. Now we will be taking it one step further by explaining more advanced techniques to really lock down your [...]

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