Why Email and Instant Messages Aren’t as Safe as You Think

In our modern world, we love the convenience and timeliness of email and instant messaging platforms. They have allowed for a greater ease of near instant communication globally than ever before. Like all communication, regardless of form, it only remains beneficial through the ways we apply it. Online interactions need to be thought of in the same ways we treat our real-world interactions.

Read more

Signs an Email is SPAM

We all get email. We all get junk email. The term that we use is SPAM email. In modern usage, we think of this as the punch line of a “Monty Python” routine. No, I will not sing the “Spam” song for you. The reality is that the term comes from an incident related to the so-called “Robert Morris” worm of 1988. Imagine a piece of Hormel canned meat thrown at the blades of a fan. What comes out the other side?

Read more

The Click That Changed Emily’s Business

As you may recall from Part I of this series, Emily is the sole owner of a small business. Like many computer users, she has heard a little about the need to keep information secure—especially customer information—so she uses a free antivirus software program. But, there’s more to protecting data than that.

Read more