Beginning in 2004, the single most important question that merchants need to ask about their business software has to do with PCI Compliance. “The Payment Card Industry (PCI) has created the Data Security Standards (DSS) in order to support merchants. Credit Card companies now require merchants to be aware of and compliant with the Data [...]
Great article on BBC this morning detailing the “security” software forced on unsuspecting computer users. Fortunately, two simple solutions will stop this dead in it’s tracks. Use OpenDNS when configuring your home or office network. Your web browser will not go where a name cannot be resolved to an ip address. Use a UTM device for [...]
Frank Corso wrote an excellent plugin called Quote Master. It adds a widget that displays random quotes, as well as others features, which I’ve used to display "Murphy’s Law" on my sidebar for some time now. With a bit of a hack, I added my "Murphy’s Law" tidbits by replacing Frank’s quotes. With Frank’s latest [...]
Came across this notification from Network Solutions this morning pointing to the fact that even the very best ecommerce providers in the industry are vulnerable to criminal activities compromising Network Solutions ecommerce hosting customers. I respect their forensic and remediation efforts, but its time to rethink the paradigm and reinvent ecommerce. How does an industry [...]
Have you read the latest news about “Cyber Security” Homeland Security Dept. Seeking Computer Hackers To Help Secure Federal Systems Secret White House Helicopter Data Found On A Computer In Iran? Chinese, Russian hackers ‘probing US power grid‘ So now we are going to hire “hackers” who by definition are criminal by nature to help [...]
