Affiliate marketing is receiving some not so great publicity…again. This time it comes from Rik Ferguson over at TrendMicro blog as he reveals a Facebook Account Upgrade Scam, where fan pages promote a Gold Facebook account upgrade. Of course, there…

Purveyors of malware and BlackHat SEO’s have been pulling in a great deal of headlines lately. It seems anytime something makes the news, there is a report of illegitimate web sites targeting keywords associated with the story to draw visitors…

Facebook announced on their blog that they will be partnering with security giant McAfee to help protect their 350 million users from malware by offering quite a few perks to registered users of the social networking site.

To begin with, each Facebook…

I got a new computer last week. I burned out yet another laptop. I seem to ride the curve of Moore’s Law.

In setting up my computer, I took the easy way to speed it up and downloaded the Google Pack…

In a recent post I commented on how I believe that Kapersky Labs is wrong when they claim that the amount of fake anti-virus software will decline in the upcoming year. Malicious hackers show no signs of leaving behind the BlackHat…

In theory, URL shorteners make perfect sense in the world of the 140 character status update popularized by Twitter and used heavily by other social networks. It is commonly accepted that shorter headlines and copy tend to have greater pull…

According to the researchers at Kapersky Lab, the scope of threats computer users will face in the new year seem to be shifting from web applications to file sharing and peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Of course, some of the newer trends…

Recently, the web was abuzz with reports of iPhone vulnerabilities that surfaced after it was found that jailbroken iPhones changed the root, or administrator, password to the phone’s Secure Shell, or SSH. As a result, someone could connect to the…

According to a recent report from the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT), spammers have exploited the recent H1N1 epidemic with a series of spam emails tricking unsuspecting users to visit a bogus site that mimics the Center for Disease Control’s…

I recently wrote about the fact that reviewing is becoming the new advertising. I made the point that reviewing is part of a trend towards transparency: these days consumers want to know all about companies and their products and consumers are…