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Okay, so you've heard about KoobFace, the new piece of malware that is infecting Facebook users this week. The thing that burns me up ab...

I was enormously encouraged to find Authentium SafeCentral front and center on the home page of InfoWorld, next to a subheadline saying ...

A couple of years ago, I decided to get better acquainted with basic software programming, as a means of better understanding the challenges...

Getting the messaging right around a new product offering takes time - especially when that product is as new and as game-changing as Authen...

One of my favorite sources of information and smart advice on the web is InfoWorld and one of my favorite IT writers there is Roger Grimes. ...

I decided to wait a day before posting about this to see if anything popped up that indicates the criminals that took over VP Candidate Sara...

I use Skype a lot to chat with friends and business partners outside the US. It's cheap, and the quality is often better than POTS (Pla...

Remember how in Independence Day, the aliens were thwarted by a virus uploaded from Jeff Goldblum's Mac? Wired magazine has a news stor...

Google Chrome improves the security profile normally associated with browsers, but it also leaves users exposed to one of the largest vulne...

Okay, I'm writing this blog post inside of Google Chrome , the brand new browser from our friends at Google. But as I was posting a scr...

There is a breaking story out of the Netherlands this hour regarding the recently-announced privacy features of the new Microsoft IE8 browse...

I received a "warning" this morning - a "Sun Trust Banks Installation and Upgrade Warning" pretending to be from SunTrus...

I'm a fan of Internet.com. I met their CEO, Alan Meckler, at a conference in Singapore a few years ago, where he was speaking about the...

As if dodging tropical storms and chasing hackers isn't challenging enough... today, a lion and a Bengali tiger escaped from a private z...

On Thursday, Joomla announced the 1.5.6 upgrade of its popular web-based CMS ( content management system ), a release designed to fix severa...

Candy Colp, our director of sales, sent me a copy of a news article from the magazine section of the Palm Beach Post this morning in which ...

On November the 7th, 1988, USA Today reported that the world's first Internet worm, the Morris virus, had effectively propagating itself...

I recently came back from a 16 country trip, during which I had a chance to meet and talk with IT security guys in lots of different environ...

Among the many entertaining stories in the book "Stealing Your Life" (mentioned below), Frank Abagnale relates the story of an onl...

Frank Abagnale is best known for writing a rip-roaring memoir that was adapted into the Steven Spielberg/Tom Hanks/Leonardo DiCaprio movie ...

The term "419 scam" is synonymous with phishing and identity theft. I personally receive about a hundred million dollars' wor...

Brian Krebs of the Washington Post wrote a nice article today about how sometimes security industry folks don't follow their own rules ....

Dan Frommer of the Silicon Valley Insider thinks the Apple iPhone "I Am Rich" application that Apple pulled from their store toda...

I realized today why consumers sometimes get so fed up with news involving Internet security alerts: it's because sometimes the basics a...

Verified Identity Pass issued a press release today stating the they have "found" the laptop we reported was missing with over 33,...