Tag Archives: Information Security Threats

A few weeks ago, I received an email that went something like this: “Lisa, we have a malware virus warning on our website link in Google.” Uh oh. Our WordPress site had been hacked. Attempting to navigate to our website …

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The weeks leading up to the New Year are a time of resolutions, both personal and professional. As 2012 draws to a close and you consider what projects to work on and habits to reform, don’t forget about your use …

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Ouch! Another large, well-known company becomes a casualty of poor security practices. According to an article recently published by CSO Online, nearly a half-million user credentials were stolen from from Yahoo. A hacker activist group employed good old “SQL injection” …

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I intended to blog about Scala, but then there was yet another loss of passwords and I ran across this post by Patrick Mylund Nielsen on Storing Passwords Securely.  This is the most complete and concise discussion of password security I’ve …

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Everyone is talking about the Global Payments breach that was reported lasted month in which information on millions of credit card accounts was compromised – splashed all over the news and on the Web. As a payment card processor, you …

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