Neustar has created their annual report on DDoS attack and impact survey. Distributed Denial of Service attacks are harder to mitigate than DoS attacks and the results can me your website or other servers are down as a result. This can make it impossible for your customers to do business with you and cost an organization time, effort, and money. The nice thing about Neustar's … [Read more...]

Firewalls, antivirus programs, and other security measures protect our systems and data from unauthorized access. Unfortunately, there is still a means to access the data that requires no technical exploits. Humans being kind or open to manipulation can allow social engineers to get the information they want. By using the credentials of somebody that should have access they are … [Read more...]

Gmail, Google's email offering that revolutionized free web-based e-mail, has turned 9 years old with the beginning of this month. On its way to 10 years old, the Gmail team created an infographic timeline of Gmail's evolution. It's fascinating to see how recent everything has been in the grand scheme of things. Check out the image after the jump. … [Read more...]