Reading Time: 3 minutes The Domain Name System is fundamental to the functioning of the internet and works so well that we rarely consider how it works. Most people do not even realize that we have options to choose from that can improve our internet performance and enhance our security. Before I get to the choices, let’s review DNS. What is…

Reading Time: 2 minutes As the country begins the full implementation of the Affordable Care Act, which coincides with the government effort to digitize medical records, it is disconcerting to note that the track record of government in data security is pretty awful. There has been a lot of news recently about the potential security vulnerability of the healthcare.gov…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Comodo Deploys AntiSpam Gateway for Edward F. Bukaty, III Law firm to Provide Proactive Spam Filtering, Increased Productivity and Protection from Email Based Virus & Malware Threats Overview: The law offices of Edward F. Bukaty, III, P.L.C., a professional law firm founded in 1978, discovered a virus outbreak had occurred. Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) was…

Reading Time: 3 minutes “You are being watched. The government has a secret system: a machine that spies on you every hour of every day.” This is from the opening voice over of one of my favorite TV shows, ”Person of Interest”. Like all good science fiction it takes existing technology and extrapolates a possible future based on where…

Reading Time: 2 minutes The controversy and privacy concerns over collecting big data still surrounds the national security agencies. While the NSA is a government project, a new report indicate that such robust tools are also being sold to multiple private companies. It sounds surprising and scary for users who are already unsure of what should be done.

Reading Time: 1 minute Web servers that permit users to inject new negotiations into ongoing secure sessions may allow interlopers to inject themselves into encrypted Internet transmissions. A correctly-implemented server opens each new session with the new negotiation and then closes the old one. Outdated server software that permits renegotiation within a single session is problematic. The negotiation or…

Reading Time: 2 minutes GitHub, the web hosting and code repository firm, is focusing attention on the importance of strong passwords for Internet security. You may have noticed that more and more web sites are requiring long passwords with special characters, numbers and letters and both upper case and lower case letters. It can be a nuisance, but is…

Reading Time: 2 minutes It seems the government is great at collecting data but not very good at protecting it. The FBI recently reported that the Anonymous activist hacker group is believed to have planted backdoors on important federal systems. It was made possible because they hacked source code for multiple Adobe products and user credentials earlier this year….

Reading Time: 2 minutes If you have no idea about medical identity theft, you would probably say that there’s nothing wrong in taking your medical records. Don’t assume that they’re taking your medical records because they want to know the outcome of your latest surgical procedure or your current blood cholesterol level. What they’ll be using is your valuable…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Adobe has successfully found and patched critical vulnerabilities found in their programs on Windows, Mac and Linux. The popular services from the company including Flash player, Cold Fusion and AIR will receive this update immediately. The vulnerabilities could allow hackers to take control of a computer or remotely read information without authorization. Flash player is…