Half the population is at risk for cybercrime This is the story of the internet infrastructure of right now. The proliferation of computers and internet access has led to millions of households who are not sufficiently protected. While you would not keep a door open to your house, You leave your internet access unprotected from [...]
It’s a near ideal scene: a family riding a train, traversing hundreds of miles in a few hours. As the train chugs along at incredible speeds, they cross mountains,valleys, chug through forests and along beaches. The son begins to tug at his fathers curtail, accidentally knocking his dad into someone passing through the hallway. No [...]
How Many of us work in a hectic, stressed environment- where deadlines and bottom-lines rule your workweek? In the course of a day, How many idiotic requests do you get to do seemly mundane chores? How Often has this happened? You: {Bored and Seeking an excuse to take a break} Phone Repairman: “Hi, Coorporate sent me [...]
It’s happened to all of us. Your busy, walking through a busy area- talking on your cellphone, when suddenly you get the option to switch to Wi-Fi and save those crucial peak hour minutes. Of course you do! So you switch over, and then gloat about being able to do so to your friend on [...]
A data breach at United Healthcare Services Inc. has led to a rash of identity-theft crimes at the University of California, Irvine. So far, Nearly 155 medical students have had their information stolen. The attackers stole the social security numbers stolen from an internal database. This breach affects nearly 1300 students, putting them at risk [...]
Despite millions of calls to switch back to strictly paper ballots, lawmakers have still not heeded the calls and warnings of computer experts. It came to my attention this friday that in Pinellas County, Florida- A duo of viruses were introduced to the network of ballot stations, bringing into question the validity of the vote. [...]
Using virus and malware-laden software used to just be a bad for one’s productivity. As it turns out, it can also be a bad idea for one’s career. Michael Fiola, formerly an investigator with the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents, was charged with possession of child pornography. He lost his community’s respect, many of his [...]
A professor at Harvard released a statement today that he has rated a new security format which is “Absolutely Unbreakable” in his opinion. And permanent privacy is putting it’s money where it’s clout is, 1,000,000.00 dollars to the first person who is able to crack the code of Permanent Privacy. The platform is based on [...]
This is really beginning to get to me. With the proliferation of laptops in our society, you would think that knowledge of security would begin to rapidly spread as well. However, this is the second story in less than a week of a laptop being stolen from a car. Now, if this was an office [...]
Am I being a little sensationalistic? I may be, however no one ever said that Beauty Queens were the brightest of the bunch. Cases like this are why I suggest that people be required to have a driver’s license for the Internet. Miss Scarborough has become the latest victim of online phishing fraudsters, with the [...]