Did you hear the story out of Sweden last week that a teenager collapsed after playing World of Warcraft for 24 hours straight?
He apparently suffered an epileptic seizure after playing for such a long time and is expected to make a full recovery. So this week my question for you is how much is too [...]

The last couple of months have seen a flurry of announcements and updates to the Payment Card Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
So, what is the impact of these changes and announcements?
Certainly, it appears that PCI is going to be at the forefront of the minds of retailers and is not going to lessen in importance [...]

For the past few weeks, I have been saying that you should talk to your kids and teach them to be safe while online. Over the next several weeks, I will be giving specifics about what to talk to them about, how to word it in language that will get their attention at different ages [...]

The Internet got a little safer last week because Internet access providers pulled the plug, literally, on a company called McColo. 
This is a moment in the fight against cybercrime that we can celebrate. It came about thanks to the important contributions of security researchers and media covering the matter. The research provides us with insight [...]

I just received my latest installment of the SANS NewsBites and noticed two articles that referenced data breaches based upon lost memory sticks. Not to pick on the UK and Ireland, but that’s where both incidents occurred. The real point is twofold; the Bank of Ireland, where PII data was on the USB stick, actually [...]

I used to have a poster on my office wall of a Chinese proverb; if you chase two rabbits, both will escape.  That poster was important to me because it conveyed the importance of focus.  What I have found to be true in my life is that if I try to accomplish two different goals [...]

Recently, a “Wells Fargo” email arrived in my junk inbox. Though legitimate email sometimes is misdirected into my junk file, I knew for sure it was a phishing email because I don’t have a Wells Fargo account.
Always interested in the quality and techniques used in phishing emails, I read it carefully. I found spelling errors [...]

Social networking sites…Facebook, Myspace, Friendster, Twitter, DeviantArt and many more…set off an interesting conversation for most moms. I have heard everything from “Oh, that site is only for kids” to “My son/daughter won’t let me get one.” First, let me ask, “Who is the parent?”  You are! And you need to know what these sites [...]

Tim Greene at Network World just issued a nice story in support of the notion that NAC can be a sort of ‘backstop’ to security tools.
NAC is supposed to do a lot of things and once it’s installed, customers are finding that NAC often does even more than they bargained for.
For instance, NAC can act [...]

This week, I would like to discuss an item that was brought up in a comment on my first blog by Parry Aftab, McAfee’s Family Internet Safety Advisor. She told a story about a cybersafety video she shot in England with a network security administrator who was also a mom. Parry asked her to do [...]