Christopher Leger

It is refreshing to see academic studies about things “everybody knows.” a new study details the threat to children online from adult predators is roughly equal to the threat that exists in the real world. The same study concluded that online bullying is a substantially larger risk for children online – again, the same as [...]

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The DNS spoofing that is out on the internet is the worst kind of security problem because  you can’t do anything about it. However, you can find out how your ISP deals with DNS lookups, and can change your DNS to OpenDNS if your ISP can’t or won’t fix this huge security hole.

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I became acutely aware of two factor authentication only after listening to a few episodes of Security Now. Two factor authentication takes the standard login and password that is ubiquitous on the internet and adds a second layer of security – something that you have on you. This is the exact system that ATM cards [...]

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