An acquaintance, who is an attractive young woman, is having a problem with her relatively new Dell Laptop, purchased at the start of the school year, and is now showing a fairly large black spot on the screen, right in the middle. My friend, Jesse, who is computer savvy, was on the phone with me [...]

Do you believe this?
First I read this article in the Washington Post about DNS Error Redirection and the insecurity of it since the ads are served by a third party, resulting in all kinds of security issues. They say the security issues are fixed. There are, however, other ramifications to this.
In reading the article [...]

The web and its domains can be a very profitable place. So profitable, in fact, that some less than scrupulous people with brains have figured out a way to tap into the whois databases to see which domain names are being searched. What happens then? If you do a search for a potential domain name [...]

All of us who spend a great deal of our time online need to double check that our protection is up to snuff. I don’t depend on my installed AntiVirus program, and neither should you, since the first thing a trojan will do is shut it off. I make a point of running an online [...]

In a discussion I initiated on WebProWorld re website security via personal computer security some good suggestions were made to monitor what our own computers are doing, since keeping our own boxes secure is part and parcel of keeping our websites safe.
One of the regulars at WPW linked to the TCP View for Windows tool [...]

Recently one of my website design clients had her site hacked. It didn’t show on the part that her normal web visitors could see, it was instead a separate bunch of pages buried in her site structure and put up for the purpose of phishing for banking info. The way she found out about it [...]