Tumblr is dealing with an aggressive phishing campaign. Only recently launched, it aims to steal log-in credentials and employs many of the well-known social engineering tactics that scammers use on social media sites
Published on: June 28th, 2011 Joan Goodchild @itbusinessca
As more people create Facebook profiles (500 million and growing), and sign on to the many social media sites available today, hiring managers are finding they have new opportunities to get background information
Published on: June 17th, 2011 Joan Goodchild @itbusinessca
Concerns about the security of cloud applications are keeping a significant number of organizations from going further with deploying more of the technology, according to a new report. CDW LLC, a provider of technology products
Published on: June 1st, 2011 Joan Goodchild @itbusinessca
In a world where we share more information online than ever before, it might seem impossible to disappear completely. But Frank Ahearn can help. A professional skip tracer for many years, he tracked
Published on: May 4th, 2011 Joan Goodchild @itbusinessca
In its recent annual security report, Cisco predicted VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) abuse as a potential area for cyber crime growth."Criminals use brute-force techniques to hack private branch exchange (PBX) systems to
Published on: March 9th, 2011 Joan Goodchild @itbusinessca
The current challenges in today's job market didn't stop Phillip Mahan from bouncing back quickly after a setback. Mahan was laid off from his position as manager of information security and risk management
Published on: December 23rd, 2010 Joan Goodchild @itbusinessca
If you've been using Google Apps for work and other Google services for play, then you know the annoyance of juggling two accounts within one browser. That hassle ended Thursday as Mountain View
Published on: November 19th, 2010 Joan Goodchild @itbusinessca
Travis Megale is happily employed. A regular Facebook user, he knows how to use the site appropriately and what NOT to say or post. Unfortunately, many Facebook members do not. Job termination due
Published on: September 28th, 2010 Joan Goodchild @itbusinessca
There may have been a time when blocking certain sites was acceptable in most office environments. But what was once considered off-limits is now essential in many organizations. Social media sites like Facebook
Published on: August 16th, 2010 Joan Goodchild @itbusinessca
Cell phones, texting, IM, email, Facebook, MySpace--kids are interconnected today in ways hardly imagined two decades ago. But these technology-based communication platforms also enable new forms of an age-old parenting strategy: monitoring your
Published on: April 20th, 2010 Joan Goodchild @itbusinessca
There have always been unethical and/or desperate job hunters out there who have used a friend or relative as a reference in order to up the chances of landing a position. Providing a
Published on: March 9th, 2010 Joan Goodchild @itbusinessca
The words "swine flu" had barely been uttered last spring when spammers and malware authors, hoping to take advantage of fears and curiosity about the virus, began devising ways to trick people with
Published on: October 30th, 2009 Joan Goodchild @itbusinessca
E-commerce fraud costs retailers approximately $4 billion each year, according to the most recent results of an annual survey conducted by Cybersource, a provider of electronic payment and risk management services. Just this
Published on: July 17th, 2009 Joan Goodchild @itbusinessca
You can install the best firewalls, patch religiously, and make sure your anti-virus software is always up-to-date, but there is one online risk factor you can never control: the user. Whether they are
Published on: April 21st, 2009 Joan Goodchild @itbusinessca
According to figures released recently by the Nemertes Research Group, an Illinois-based research advisory firm, as many as 71 per cent of U.S. companies offer full-time or part-time telecommuting to employees. Despite the
Published on: March 26th, 2009 Joan Goodchild @itbusinessca
