By special guest contributor Allie Wester of F-Secure.

More than 18 million people are already using Twitter, and it probably feels as if everyone in the world is tweeting.  To put the potential growth of Twitter in context, Facebook has more…

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James Gordon might have considered himself an entrepreneur, but to the courts he was a professional plaintiff and a lawsuit junkie, running a ‘litigation factory’ to sue emailers using anti-spam laws.  His failed ‘enterprise’ however, ended up costing him thousands…

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Forgot your password? That’s no problem. Want to find out someone else’s?  That shouldn’t be a problem either.  Password recovery was designed to be simple and easy, but some companies make it problematically easy.

For most online accounts, there’s the option…

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Chances are you haven’t been able to go a day lately without hearing something about Swine Flu.  Amid this cloud of coverage in Internet and TV news reports, comes an onslaught of SPAM opportunists exploiting the story and capitalizing on…

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Is it possible to share data online and still protect your personal identity? Internet privacy guidelines, privacy legislation and privacy policies on websites all feed the illusion that we can mount a close to foolproof identity defense. But the truth…

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Spam is defined as unsolicited e-mails, often of a commercial nature, sent (though uninvited) to multiple mailing lists or individuals. Spam is also called “junk e-mail.”

Did you know that over 85% of the emails sent around the world every day…

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