Drowning in Passwords: Tips to Stay Safe and Sane

Monday, November 9th, 2009

If you spend much time online, you probably have the same problem I do: How to remember your ever-growing list of online usernames and passwords-and stay secure at the same time. You're savvy enough to know that identity theft and illegal access to personal and financial data are real-world problems that ...

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Scramble on to fix flaw in SSL security protocol

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Software makers around the world are scrambling to fix a serious bug in the technology used to transfer information securely on the Internet.The flaw lies in the SSL protocol, best known as the technology used for secure browsing on Web sites beginning with HTTPS, and lets attackers intercept secure SSL ...

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Google launches privacy Dashboard service

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Google has launched a Dashboard service that's designed to show how much the search engine giant knows about its users online activities.The service provides a summary of data associated with a specified Google account. Users gain the ability to view and manage data, which ranges from search engine queries and ...

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What does the government know about you?

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

It seems that one of the most paranoid suppositions regarding government control of regular citizens is partly true. Wired reports that they managed to procure declassified documents that show that FBI uses a data-mining system to track down terrorists, but to do this they also gather information about regular citizens ...

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‘Google-like’ Tool Aids Network Security

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Network administrators and security specialists have long had tools and software for analyzing the streams of traffic that course through company systems, but now a Marlborough, Massachusetts, startup wants to make the process a lot easier. Dejavu Technologies recently released TrafficScape, an appliance that grabs network packets and converts them into ...

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