Security

Clever buggers - they've figured out a way to use the Cloud to advance a technology used to break passwords. Essentially what this article is talking about is a Brute Force Attack.  It means when presented with a password prompt you just try every poss… more »

Everybody's talking about Wikileaks these days and yesterday I heard somebody pondering the security implications of it all. And with good reason, Wikileaks highlights one of the most difficult, but most important, factors in information security: The p… more »

Well, it looks like yet another organization has gotten compromised and potentially exposed the data of thousands of customers.  In this case the University of Hawaii Parking Office are the culprits and as many as 53,000 people may have had their persona… more »

In a story that has been all over the tech press and even into the mainstream press lately, Google ("Don't Be Evil") has been caught with its fingers in another privacy pie. It turns out that while their camera cars have been driving up and down the st… more »

Folks, how many times do we have to have examples like this?  A stolen or lost laptop, thousnads of people's personal information out in the wind.  Whole disk encryption is neither expensive nor difficult.  There's an article RIGHT HERE that even explain… more »