I don’t know about you, but from my vantage point the signs of some virus/malware/bad guy troubles are everywhere. The first whiff came from a note sent by Avast!, a free (for basic protection) anti-virus program with a large user base.
The company cautioned that malware gangs have become adept users of SEO (Search Engine Optimization). [...]

Thirty years in the computing business and the next thing you know is that you’ve amassed your own  digital legacy.  Years of life’s work, play and everything in between sitting around in a disk or off in some cloud somewhere, stored as bits and bytes.
As I thought about legacy I started to think about legacy [...]

In the US alone there are dozens of well meaning organizations and companies that have made Internet Safety their bailiwick. Internet security companies like Symantec, Trend Micro, and McAfee for example, are but a few that have concentrated efforts on giving parents tools to monitor their kids’ Internet behaviors.
Organizations like WiredSafety, FOSI, getNetWise, NetSmartz, Pause, [...]

Their bodies may be gone, but their user names, passwords, and online personae linger on.
As our PCs and our emails hold more and more of our most intimate musings, and as boomers face mortality, the question of how to treat our online lives in the afterlife is a big one. I hear more and more [...]

What if website operators could spot troublemakers in cyberspace based on a single score? What if that score stuck as you surfed the web? ReputationShare is a product that allows site operators to share information about your reputation as an upstanding digital citizen.

It’s spring. The crocuses peek out their heads, newborn babies abound, and teenage hormones course through the veins of every 12- to 19-year-old. Maybe that’s why, every spring, parents get another wave of hysteria about the next peril they’ll need to face on the Internet. This season the hubbub revolves around “sexting.”

Now that you can track what people say about you (your family, your employees, your product, your town…whatever it is that you hold dear), what can you do about it? Managing your reputation is a much thornier issue than tracking it.

In cyberspace, whether you’ve been a saint, sinner, or some combination of the two, your reputation sticks. Forever. Long after the real world has moved past its obsession with your high school foibles, tawdry affairs, or crooked deals, the Internet elephant never forgets.
I’ve lived it. A few years back I made a dumb business decision [...]

Last month I predicted that the government, in the true spirit of “why do today what you can put off until tomorrow” would vote to postpone the national transition to a digital TV signal, “DTV transition,” until June. They agreed to delay because millions of consumers weren’t ready (physically or mentally) to make [...]

There are few incentives to give your real age out on the Internet, but even fewer if you are a minor. If you answer “under 18″ on an adult website you won’t be allowed in. If you answer “under 13″ on many sites like Amazon, YouTube, and others you’ll be denied access. That’s [...]