FBI pushes for broader Internet surveillance

It has always been a game of cat and mouse, hide and seek – the white hats verses the black hats. For as long as I can remember, and I’ve been involved in technology since 1980, even before the IBM XT computer debut in 1983 – people, hackers really, have been trying to access data […]

Is your data at risk

This weekend started an annual American tradition, the inaugural kickoff of NFL football. Televisions were tuned to favorite games everywhere. Of course some of us are not content with just watching these games, we have to be a part of them, hence fantasy football. There are various websites, NFL, Yahoo, ESPN, CBSSports where you can join […]

In Wake of Security Breach, Yahoo! Hires New CEO

Just days after Yahoo! announced a security breach that compromised 400,000 user accounts the company names a new CEO, Marissa Mayer. Founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in March 1995 in Santa Clara, California Yahoo! has had its share of ups and downs. Yahoo! has had five CEOs in the past five-year and eight […]

Yahoo gives away passwords

In a company statement Yahoo! stated, “At Yahoo! we take security very seriously and invest heavily in protective measures to ensure the security of our users and their data across all our products.” If that is the case then Yahoo! should explain why it stored users ID and passwords with encryption and allowed 400,000 user […]

The Yahoo Shuffle

Sure looks like a hostile take-over to me. I am referring to all the shenanigans at Yahoo. Fred Amoroso, Yahoo’s new board chairman released a statement saying they are confident that these changes will server the best interest of their shareholders. With Scott Thompson’s resignation and that of Patti Hart, who lead the hunt for […]