by jnelson | Jul 7, 2012 | News, Security
The people who want control over the Internet are nothing if not persistent. They are quite capable of learning from their mistakes, too. So it should perhaps come as no surprise that they have licked their wounds and regathered their forces after the resounding defeat of SOPA. They’ve come up with a new scheme to protect their precious copyrights; a kinder, gentler version of SOPA that, while it enables spying, supposedly has education more in mind than punishment.
by jnelson | Jun 13, 2012 | Events, How the Net Works, News
The world passed a significant milestone on June 6, and no one noticed the great sigh of relief that went up around the world. And that’s just the way it should be. On that day, World IPv6 Launch Day, the new Internet addressing system, was successfully put to...
by jnelson | Apr 21, 2012 | News, Security
The price of freedom, it is said, is eternal vigilance. That has been demonstrated once again in the ongoing legal struggle over privacy on the Internet. The celebration and congratulations among the people who united to defeat SOPA, the “Stop Online Piracy...
by jnelson | Apr 12, 2012 | News, Security, Warnings
It finally happened: for the first time, Macintosh computers have been attacked by a trojan virus in a big way. Few viruses have ever targeted them before, and for decades Apple owners were told simply not to worry, that viruses were a Microsoft problem. Now the...
by Mark Costlow | Mar 28, 2012 | News
We’ve noticed there are several Joomla sites out there which have not been updated to the latest version of the Joomla software. This is alarming since many security exploits have been discovered in Joomla over the past couple of years. Sites running older...
by jnelson | Mar 27, 2012 | News, Security, Warnings
Your friends at the Internal Revenue Service are eager to get everyone to do their federal taxes online. But in their efforts to make everything quick and easy, they’ve wound up helping Internet tax scammers, too. And it’s not a phishing scheme or involves...
