Hack attack: how to protect and prepare your company
Another day, another hack.
From Sony to the IMF, the internet is starting to resemble the wild wild west as hackers assault high-profile companies and organizations.
Is the age of innocence over for the Mac?
If you own a Windows-based computer, it may be hard to believe that many of your Mac counterparts don't run antivirus software.
Viruses and malware are a fact of life for Windows owners, and as a result, there is a sizable ecosystem of security software vendors whose mission in life is to protect PC owners from the constantly growing number of threats.
But Mac owners may be getting a taste of the hassles PC owners have become accustomed to...
Five lessons from the Gawker, McDonald's data breaches
What does online gossip rag Gawker have in common with fast food restaurant chain McDonald's? In the past several days, both have fallen victim to hackers who gained access to user databases.
The Gawker hack, in particular, has garnered a lot of attention because the hackers seem most interested in humiliating the popular blog. They have released the emails and passwords of more than 1m of Gakwer's registered users.
SEOs are not spammers, evildoers, or opportunists
It seems like every few months, somebody has to write a blog post
calling SEO a 'scam' of some sort. It's a meme that always works and
this time around, it's coming from a guy named Derek Powazek, who calls
SEOs "spammers, evildoers, and opportunists".
It's a great linkbait, which, ironically, is sure to help Powazek's SERPs.
The New York Times falls victim to a sophisticated ad scam
When visitors to The New York Times website began falling victim to a fake anti-virus ad that attempted to install malware on readers' computers, some, myself included, suspected that the ad was probably being served through an ad network.
According to The Times, about half of the ads that are served on its website come from ad networks and they are an obvious target for scammers looking to distribute rogue ads that deliver malware.
But as it turns out, the rogue ad that was wreaking havoc with some Times readers was actually sold by The New York Times itself.
WordPress attack catches bloggers off guard, but it shouldn't have
Over the weekend, reports surfaced of a seemingly widespread attack targeting older versions of the popular blogging software WordPress. The attack leaves WordPress installations severely compromised and appears to be part of a campaign to spread spam and malicious code.
Numerous bloggers found themselves victims. One of those bloggers was popular tech personality Robert Scoble. He claims that two months of his blog's content was lost and that his site was booted from Google's index because of malicious code that had been inserted (ouch).
Serious security vulnerability hits Adobe Acrobat Reader 9 and earlier
Adobe Acrobat Reader is as close to ubiquitous as it comes. Most new Windows-based computers come with installed and many websites offer up documents in PDF format.
That makes Acrobat Reader a juicy target for hackers and a critical vulnerability has been discovered in Acrobat Reader versions 9 and earlier that could expose users to serious risk.
