Recently, iRobot (the maker of the Roomba, cleaning robot) announced that they were working on a deal with big retailers to share maps of their users homes to Amazon, Apple and Google. As you may be, people were outraged and confused. What does your vacuum cleaner actually know about you? Your Roomba and even other […]
What Potatoes Can Teach Us About Security
I love hash browns and roasted potato hash. And although hashing your stored password data doesn’t require a little salt, pepper, and ketchup, doing so can be delicious to your clients – and keep them coming back for more of what you’re offering them year-after-year. Doesn’t that sound s-mashing! Do you have a website that […]
Security Expert Brian Krebs Says: Buy Quality Hardware
Security expert Brian Krebs says people using the internet are safer if they purchase quality hardware. The 43-year-old Alabama native writes Krebs on Security. It’s a one-man operation focused on digital crime. His encyclopedic knowledge of the subject and his network of contacts has made his blog essential reading for anyone interested in cyber crime and […]
Successful Businesses Create a Secure Culture
According to a blog post on the PCI DSS website, building a secure culture in your online business is essential. “As long as there’s money to be made, we can expect criminals to continue their attacks on businesses worldwide,” wrote Lindsay Goodspeed. She is a communications specialist for the Payment Card Industry (PCI). That’s the organization that […]
What is the Annual Cost of Cyber Crime?
Whether you want to acknowledge it or not, data breaches, security threats and cyber crime in general are a very real risk to your business. According to a recent report from Rackspace, some recent estimates put the annual cost of cyber crime at $500 billion or more — a number that quadrupled from 2013 to […]
3 Website Platforms to Build Your Website without Writing Code – Email Marketing Tips
In Aweber’s article relating to websites, they speak on some of the ways that one can build their company or personal website on certain hosting platforms without having to know how to write code. In some of the things they list are how marketing you require having an email list as well as using and […]
ARM, Symantec look to build digital trust with new IoT security standard
In Alexander Sword’s article relating to computer systems, he speaks on some of the recent discoveries that have led security experts to believe that all devices that are connected to the web require a higher level of security and that level of security should be parallel to that of the sites that deal with eCommerce. […]
Email Delivery vs. Deliverability: What’s the Difference?
In Kayla Lewkowicz’s article on an Email being delivered, presents the concept of one working hard to get to a specific market goal and to reach a crowd yet one never knows if they do due to lack of communication and in this case the communication is email. Lewkowicz then explains the difference between a […]
7 Steps for Building an Ecommerce Site Customers Can Trust
In Maricel Rivera’s article relating to websites, she speaks on one of the important steps to building an eCommerce site and that is getting the customer to trust it in order to make online payments. She quotes a hacker’s blog post which explains that the number one concern for having a site is providing security […]
