Ghostery Ghostery tracks the invisible web. Over 200 advertisers, hidden data collectors, ad networks, and web publishers are available for your perusal. There are plenty of great reviews for this sweet little extension. I wouldn’t leave my browser without it! Ghostery is available for Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Google Chrome. Linux Magazine says “Tags, Web [...]
Having little or no Internet knowledge can greatly impede Internet security concerns and expose home users to viruses, malware, botnets, rootkits, and a host of other data breaching vulnerabilities.
Update for July 3, 2010: Whatever happened to #ch140 on #Twitter? ____________ While working on a Google doc about windows security tips for home users this afternoon, I asked @mikerigsby [Twitter] for windows security advice. Mike responded that he could “type “home internet security tips” into Google & 2 out of 1st 10 hits is [...]
Recently, While watching the twitter public_timeline (TPT), I managed to get myself tangled up in an uncomfortable situation online. While on the TPT I came across an alleged hacktivist, became overly curious, and followed up by conducting private research to better understand the intentions behind his or her hacktivism activities. It wasn’t long before I [...]
With the advent of banking Trojans such as the Clampi virus spreading like wildfire across the Internet, the security of online banking and financial transactions needs to be addressed more so than at any other time in history. The virus, called Clampi, “is pretty scary,” says Tim Wilson, editor of DarkReading, a technology security news [...]
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