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In 1994, Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric ask a question on The Today Show, “What is the Internet, anyway?” Today nearly 90% of Americans use the internet. If it wasn’t for Tim Berners-Lee, a software engineer at CERN, inventing a system for exchanging data over the internet (yes the internet was around before the world […]

A watering hole attack occurs when hackers add malicious code to a website, like what recently happened to Yahoo, and site visitors are then infected with a virus. This can pop up on any legitimate site you visit and the hackers are getting trickier every day, so you should always be cautious and alert to

Facebook is 10 years old today, February 4, 2014, and they are celebrating in style. As hundreds of millions of users started logging on this morning, they were greeted with “Look Back”, a video compilation that is set to music and looks back at their lives on Facebook from the beginning. This video includes special

Yahoo announced on Thursday, January 30, 2014, that their security experts found a “coordinated effort to gain unauthorized access to Yahoo Mail accounts”. According to Yahoo’s post on Tumbler about this breach, “…the list of usernames and passwords that were used to execute the attack was likely collected from a third-party database compromise. We have

Have you run into content thieves, also known as content scrapers, during your blogging tenure? If not, you probably will at some point in your writing career. How do you know if your site has been scraped? All of your content will redirect through another site’s servers. These sites, such as BuzzMyFx, lead you to

You may be wondering what, exactly, is a “Twibel”. Well, it’s a Twitter libel case. Seriously? People sue others because of Twitter posts? We live in a litigious society, folks, and people can be sued for what is written on social media sites (libel) just as easily as for what is said verbally (slander). And

Yelp seems to be having a tough time with reviews lately. Just last year, several New York businesses were slapped with hefty fines for paying for fake positive Yelp reviews. So, what now? A Virginia business owner has successfully sued Yelp for the identities of anonymous negative reviewers that are suspected to be fake…meaning that

The hackers strike again! Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yahoo and Google report that 2 million+ accounts around the world have been hacked with one of the latest types of malware that copies login information from users. Trustwave, a web security firm, stated that the theft of login usernames and passwords during the past month was due

November 11th is an important day in the United States. It is Veterans’ Day…a day when we thank and honor those who served and who are serving our country to preserve our freedoms. But what does Veteran’s Day really stand for? Is it a day to just say “Hey, thanks for the job you did.”?

Your website being hacked is a big enough problem to deal with; however, if Google thinks that your site has been infected with a virus, your big problem can become a nightmare. Google can “quarantine” your site even after it has been repaired. What they aren’t saying is that they are actually blacklisting hacked/infected sites. There

  ‘Tis the season for more than just shopping, family and overeating. It’s virus season…for you as well as your computer. The Crypto Locker virus is new and it can have devastating results, such as hijacking your computer and wiping out everything on it. This virus is generally in an email that looks like it

“Wait…What?!? Hey, I can’t send or receive any email!” Has this ever happened to your company? If so, then your IP address has been blacklisted by other mail servers because they think your email address and/or domain is spamming. When this happens, everyone you try to send email to that uses that mail server bounces

Efficient blogging, from topic choice through research, writing, images, catchy title, SEO and publishing should take you less than an hour. You may be wondering how you can speed up your blog writing so here are a few tips… 1) Choose a topic that will grab your readers’ attention. When you run across an interesting

Make the #hashtag abuse stop! Hash tags can be a great marketing tool when used properly and have been effectively used on Twitter and Google+ for several years. However, if over used such as we see on Facebook, they can be just plain irritating.   #Hashtag with Jimmy Fallon & Justin Timberlake   Hashtag usage

This flaw could be a hacker’s paradise since they can bypass your security software. This may affect all versions of Internet Explorer and every release of Windows, which means no one using this browser is safe. On October 8, 2013, there will be four Critical updates and four Important updates released for Internet Explorer. According

Google is 15 years old, today, September 27, 2013! Google has become a giant in the wide world of the Web. So much so that “Google it” is a commonplace term, worldwide, to search for anything on the internet. Co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, were still attending Stanford University when they rented the garage

  How secure is your website? You’re with a company who hosts and maintains websites so you believe that you have nothing to worry about. That’s not always true. Just recently, LivingSocial was the victim of a cyber attack in which 50 million accounts were hacked. That’s crazy, you say? LivingSocial is huge and they

WHAT? Yes, you read that correctly. On August 27, 2013, The New York Times’ website crashed due to an attack on Melbourne IT, the NYT’s domain name registrar. According to ABC News, Melbourne IT released a statement that an “unknown party accessed a reseller account with a stolen ID and password and used that access