I dont know if anyone else has noticed this, but as of 9:50AM EST, Google’s harmful site detection seems to be on the fritz.  As you will see in the attached photo, every single search result appears to be a “harmful site”.  Not only is Google showing this “harmful site” link on the search page, [...]

Last week, I wrote an article on proper hard drive sterilization and as promised I’m going to follow up today with an article on how to digitally shred individual files.  Let me first start off by saying this.  If you’re some type of cyber criminal and you’re reading this in hopes of destroying evidence, you [...]

The MacBook Air is all the rage right now.  It’s all over Digg and pretty much any other technology site you look at.  Also found all over the blogosphere are the never ending debates as to whether PC’s or Mac’s are inherently more secure.  After thinking about all of this and considering how incredibly thin the MacBook Air really [...]

Hundreds of computer users sell their used computer systems everyday.  Why?  Well, because computers systems become out-dated…everyday.  Whether it be at a garage sale, on eBay or just to a friend, computers are constantly changing hands.  Sometimes however, users fail to realize that when they sell their old system, they could also be selling a [...]

Let me start off by saying that I realize making a statement as bold as the one in the title is blasphemy in the I.T. world, and I also realize that at this very moment I’m probably being brought up on charges of high treason by my fellow computer guru’s, but aside from all that [...]

With a new year upon us, college students everywhere are going to be looking to rent and sublet apartments before the summer.  Naturally whenever there are large amounts of money and property changing hands, there is bound to be fraud.  This past weekend I was alerted to a type of online scam targeting college students [...]

In an on-going attempt to make users ever more cognizant of phishing scams and online identity theft, I have found an interesting article on Wired.com (curteousy of Digg) that explains a very new and dangerous phishing threat to Facebook users.  According to the article, hackers have discovered a way to post seemingly harmless messages (from what [...]

WindowsXP Pro and certain implementations of Windows Vista have a fun little feature known as file encryption.  On WindowsXP Pro, this feature is called EFS or Encrypted File System and can be implemented on the file or folder level by right clicking on said file/folder, selecting properties, followed by advanced and selecting “Encrypt contents to [...]

I have been noticing this more and more lately and it has finally bothered me enough to cause me to want to write about it.  What i’m talking about is the insane number of groups that are springing up, almost every day on Facebook, started by people who have broken or lost their cell phones [...]

About a year ago I did a little experiment for a computer networking class that I was taking at the time where I drove around my town and a neighboring town running a program on my laptop to detect wireless networks.  Let me make it perfectly clear, I had no intentions of accessing these networks or [...]