Communication is an essential part of business; corporate privacy is an obligatory work condition. If we combine these two notions, we'll get an ever acute issue in the world of business - secure communication. Security does not depend on the size of your enterprise; neither does on the industry you are in. Security is a general must, and it's hard to argue.


Online has always had a...

Protect Your Website From Hackers

One of the biggest hacking epidemics is related to Viagra and other related websites.

Why do they do this?

These products can't be promoted through regular channels. And building links for them is even more difficult. Hacking unprotected websites is often much less work.

You can utilize standard website and server security protocol. However this post is about spotting the issue early.

You...

As part of a project I was completing in Computer Security I thought I would target war-driving.

For those who do not know what war-driving is - it is essentially the process of using off-the-shelf computing equipment to identify unsecured or poorly secured networks to exploit for free bandwidth or to access.

I thought the most practical way of gaining data was to simply walk from one end of a street to the other end, using my modest Blackberry mobile phone to scan...

View Original: Michael Bhrad Social Media Consulting

Social Networks act as facilitators of our simulated self's online. Not a virtual identity, but an extension of our real identities. So what happens when we extend our personal lives into a scope that may leave us visible in ways we'd never sign-up for to begin with?

Foursquare Security breach unlocked by proactive hacker: Foursquare Safety Issues?

Foursquare is one of the more controversial social...

The Conficker C worm is no joke.

As we have discussed here before, the worm is spreading fast - it’s already infected between 5 million and 10 million computers. Microsoft is even offering a $250,000 reward to anyone who can stop it.

Now, a group of anti-worm researchers have teamed up to form a group they call the Conficker Cabal. The group is attempting to hunt down the malicious program’s creator and looking for ways to do damage control.

“We love...