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How do you keep your business and your website secure in this strange new cyber world where threats lurk behind every email and website? Join us for a Cyber Security Seminar designed for SMALL BUSINESSES Is your website secure? More importantly, is your customer data secure? What steps can you take to make it safer? […]
A New Tool to Protect Privacy
Security is becoming more and more of an issue with websites – both for business owners on how to keep their site secure and for consumers on how to protect their privacy. There is a concept that is gaining in popularity called Differential Privacy. While the initial work in this area is over 10 years […]
Privacy vs. Business Intelligence
Here are some things any web site can find out about the visitor: Data points I can know about you: Your IP address Your physical location Your computer name Your operating system Your browser Your screen size Your device (if mobile) Potentially your phone number (if mobile) How you got to my site (from search? […]
Privacy, Apps and You
What’s App? That was a lame heading but this is not a lame topic. Do you have a mobile phone? I think by now everyone (but the pastor at my church who still uses a flip phone) has a mobile phone with a data plan. And you have apps on it. Have you read the permissions […]
You’ve Got to be Kidding Me! Privacy on the Internet
Privacy is something no one should assume while surfing the Internet. EVERY SINGLE move you make on the Internet is recorded on numerous server logs around the world. The only expectation of anonymity comes from the fact that the sheer volume of data is so overwhelming that honing in on your data is unlikely. Unless […]
Stay Secure with a Strong Password
Not too long ago hackers stole 32 million user passwords and exposed them on a web site. An enterprising security company, Imperva, did some analysis of all these passwords. Guess what they learned? Your password probably isn’t strong enough. If you thought you were being clever by changing your super easy to guess password from […]
Which Big Brother is Watching?
When I was a kid I understood that concern over big brother watching was that the government would be prying into every part of our lives and monitoring what we do. That threat still exists and is encroaching more and more but there are now other “big brothers” that we need to watch out for. […]
Can’t do Business the Same Old Way
online poker news During a meeting with a potential client this week I made a casual inquiry, asking which payment processor they currently used for the ecommerce web site. “Oh, we do it manually” they said. It turns out they use an antiquated system that sends them the customer’s credit card information via email. They […]
Online Privacy vs. Convenience and Communication
The latest trend in social media is “Location Aware” services whether it be Twitter, Facebook or the latest up and coming site, Foursquare. I’m an avid user of Foursquare, checking in mostly at public locations like restaurants, coffee shops and taverns but also at our office and even on my deck (one of my favorite […]
An Email Address By Any Other Letter
Shakespeare may have said that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but who would have imagined that email address starting with any other letter would get less spam? Say what? A researcher in England discovered that, for real email addresses, those beginning with less common letters receive less spam. So that […]
