Cyber Security Lessons From China: What You Need to Be Concerned About

Posted by Angela Render on October 15, 2011

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Cyberattack Lessons from China

Posted by Angela Render on January 18, 2010

I sent the following bulletin to my mailing list, but I thought I’d include it here as well: Dear Friends, Google and Microsoft have been in the news lately over the latest cyberattack from China. This one involves an exploit found in Internet Explorer versions all of them. (full report: Microsoft Security Advisory (979352) – [...]

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Google Security Alert

Posted by Angela Render on September 9, 2008

Do NOT Use Chrome

On September 5, 2008, Google announced the launch of its own web browser. Chrome was billed as an open source browser with a “faster more reliable experience.” Seeing as how I might have to eventually program to this browser, I downloaded it for a test-drive to see how it rendered pages compared to Firefox and Internet Explorer.

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Personablity vs Security: The Writers’ Quandary

Posted by Angela Render on August 22, 2008

I just saw something scary. I was researching some possible platform building forums for a client when I ran across one that made me cover my face with my hands and shake my head. There on the page, visible to everyone—whether they were members of the forum or not—was a woman who had posted details about herself, her family and her kids as part of this online community. Interspersed with the text were pictures of each of her five kids, labeled with their names and ages. This was signed with her full name, city and state of residence. I scraped my jaw up off of the floor and, on a whim, I went digging into her past posts. I found details about her kids’ personalities, food preferences, school—the list goes on and gets even scarier.

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