I frequently read publications like Bloomberg and Reuters and when I come across an article relating to cybersecurity, I pay attention.  Those types of outlets aren’t known for their expertise in this area and so what they write is a good reflection...

Over at Word to the Wise, Steve Atkins has a good post on URL redirectors.  URL shorteners take long URLs and compress them into smaller ones.  However, because bit.ly is the most popular URL shortener (because they originally were the exclusive...

Over the weekend, Internet hacking group LulzSec, responsible for breaking into such companies as Sony, Nintendo, Sega, the CIA’s web page, the British NHS and others.  None of LulzSec’s hacks seem particularly malicious, that is, they weren’t stealing...

If you haven’t been paying attention, ICANN is finally moving forward with opening up personalized gTLD’s.  John Levine has his views on a CircleID article here .  Another article on CircleID by Krista Papac is here . Ever since I heard of the...

When it comes to email, I am our customers’ best friend.  I really am.  I’m the good guy that is always defending the user experience.  But even I have my breaking point. Over the years, we have put in a ton of outbound spam mitigations...

Over the years, our spam filtering has gotten to be pretty good.  We don’t see a lot of complaints about spam other than the odd escalation (why didn’t your filters stop this “obvious, blatant” spam from coming to my inbox?). However, that doesn...

I have been gone for the past two weeks, first at MAAWG in San Francisco and then out on holidays back in Canada.  While I was back in Canada, I stumbled across a new hacking technique. Since I work with computers, everyone back home who isn’t a...

I was reading Trend Micro’s blog the other day where they take aim at Microsoft’s claims for its new Internet Explorer 9 browser and how the Smartscreen built-in protection feature was doing at blocking malware.  Trend decided to look at the effectiveness...

In January 2010, Google was the victim of a cyber attack.  Google employees were sent spear phishing attacks and the attackers were able to make off with some important code.  This was about a year and a half ago.  At the time, there was...

Over the weekend, US military contractor Lockheed Martin admitted that it was the target of a hacking incident over the weekend of May 21.  From the Wall Street Journal : Hacking incidents at defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. and broadcaster...

I’m watching the first episode of South Park Season 15 on the web (viewer discretion advised… serious viewer discretion).  It’s the one where Cartman and Kyle, and everyone else, get iPads. Kyle decides not to read the Terms and Conditions and it...