Television advertising is often seen as a measure of mainstream acceptance online technology. It is clear that location based mobile applications have arrived after Foursquare’s  20 second commercial run on the Bravo network. Foursquare, an app where users share their location…

The balance between security and privacy is again being tested as Google has recently requested the help of the US National Security Agency (NSA) to better secure themselves, and their users’ data, from future cyberattacks.

The request comes on the heels of…

In a previous post I discussed how I thought Twitter was a good tool for businesses.

It turns out that I was underestimating the enterprising drive of Twitter and now Foursquare users. In June of 2009, there was much talk about how…

The recent attack on RockYou.com’s database opened many people’s eyes to a number of security flaws that exist on even some of the more popular web sites. To begin with, the RockYou social network’s database was susceptible to a Structured Query…

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…

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…

Back in October of 2008, We Watch Your Website’s security blog reported that malicious hackers were actually using successful SEO campaigns to spread a huge money making bit of malware to unsuspecting victims. The attack was maniacally brilliant. By finding vulnerable…

I have been working in, and writing about, web site security for some time now and I never really made the connection between good security and search engine optimizations until just recently. On accident, I had left the term “Security”…