By Richard Medugno As a result of the recent Epsilon data breach, customers of US Bank, TiVo, Capital One, Dell, Best Buy, Disney Destinations, Visa Card, and Walgreens, to name a few, have had their email addresses compromised and have received warnings to be on the lookout for phishing attacks. Phishing attacks are criminal attempts…
Read MoreLast Thursday, April 21, 2011 Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) had an outage that impacted multiple Availability Zones. Thursday morning, Amazon issued a status update indicating that the outage was based on problems with replication mirroring: “This re-mirroring created a shortage of capacity in one of the US-EAST-1 Availability Zones, which impacted new EBS volume creation as well as the pace with which we could re-mirror and recover affected EBS volumes. Additionally, one of our internal control planes for EBS has become inundated such that it’s difficult to create new EBS volumes and EBS backed instances.”
Read MoreBy Jennifer Burns If you’re like me, you love shopping with your slippers on, a cup of black coffee, and shiny credit card in hand (and with the great online discounts, who can blame us?) However, as a cautious online shopper, there are a few special things I look for before hitting “Buy”: Check your…
Read MoreBy Richard Medugno, Marcom Project Manager at Trend Micro I think it’s a big mistake for spouses or partners to have joint email accounts, or to share the passwords to their individual accounts. Another mistake, equally as bad, is to have passwords that can be easily figured out by significant others, friends, or family members….
Read MoreBy Vic Hargrave For many Internet users social networking has become their main online activity. More than likely your kids are involved with social networking, perhaps even more than you realize. As responsible parents we want to know with whom our kids are associated and help them establish meaningful relationships in life. But how can…
Read MoreIf you’re like many, you have been storing your photos on your computers for a long time. And as time has gone by, both the volume and relative preciousness of your photos seem to increased dramatically. It’s probably become very difficult to keep track of and manage the whole kit and kaboodle. So you might…
Read MoreIn our hectic cloud-based world, devops (the mixing of infrastructure operations with software development) has become the standard way we build and run high-scale sites from IaaS to SaaS. There are lessons to be learned from how we got here, especially because devops isn’t very security friendly.
Read MoreThere are plenty of legitimate reasons why a responsible person might want to browse various websites without leaving a trail of evidence (cookies) in her wake, and none of them have to do with looking at anything racy. Private browsing allows a person to shop for a holiday or anniversary or birthday gift without resident…
Read MoreBy Vic Hargrave Recently, I was perusing my Facebook news feed when I saw something strange that was written to my son’s wall. Yes, I’m friends on Facebook with both my son and daughter, who turned me on to social networking by the way. I insist on it. Haven’t you friended your kids on Facebook? …
Read MoreNo one likes the thought of a child browsing the Internet for school research, or enjoying multi-player computer games, and then stumbling across an inappropriate website. Yet many of us don’t take the time to set up parental controls with the assumption that it will take too much time or interfere with computer performance. These…
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