Computer Security


Recent Computer Security Articles

Protect Your Company From Fired Employees: 8 Steps

Use this checklist after terminating an employee to ensure that you, your employees, and your company remain secure.  Read more

How to Avoid Password Hacks: 5 Rules

The lesson from LinkedIn's data breach? Most online passwords are easy nuts to crack. Here are some simple rules to stay safe.  Read more

5 Reasons Why Your Company Is Safer in the Cloud

Still reluctant to put your data in the cloud? Don't be--the security is far stronger than anything your company can offer.  Read more

The Hack That Helped Launch a Company

Start-up Voyager Mobile got hacked--and wound up tripling the media attention for its launch.  Read more

4 Tech Mistakes That Can Bring Down Your Business

You're no IT person--you have a business to run!--but you can't afford to get these technology decisions wrong.  Read more

How Gilt Keeps a Stellar Workforce 

Gilt Groupe's CEO Kevin Ryan says you should get to know all of your employees and learn when it's time to promote and let go.  Watch video

3 Cloud Services That Make Work Easier

Protect yourself against data loss, security blunders, and--that real productivity killer--inefficiency.  Read more

Encourage Employees to Speak Up

Silence is not golden. To really know what's going on, you need people around you to say what's on their minds (even if it's not what you want to hear).  Read more

6 Major Tech Innovations for 2012

These trends could make for huge opportunities--or huge disruptions to your business. Either way, they are ones to watch.  Read more

Are You an Oversharer Online? How to Tell

A new tool scans all of your online activity and lets you know if it's in danger of tainting your reputation.  Read more

5 New Apps & Tech Tools to Try

Dozens of new gadgets and Web services promise to boost your business. Here are five that just might deliver.  Read more

7 Classic Tech Blunders to Avoid

Any of these mistakes could cost you time, money, and the security of your business.  Read more

Cheap Ways to Make an Old Computer New Again

Sprucing up the office computers is a lot more affordable than replacing them.  Read more

Zappos' Security Breach: Are You Next?

The hackers didn't get credit card information but what they did get is potentially more dangerous. Don't let it happen to your business.  Read more

Do You Have a Privacy Problem?

Google, Facebook, and others have made consumers particularly sensitive about their privacy online. That means you need to be sensitive about it too.  Read more

Why You Might Be a Prime Target for Cyber Criminals

Hackers stole credit card data from 200 businesses over three years and racked up $3 million in bogus charges. Don't think it can't happen to you.  Read more

What's Going on With SOPA?

The Stop Online Piracy Act could allow the government and corporations to create website blacklists. That's enraging tech's best and brightest.  Read more

New Ways to Keep Hackers Out of Your Business

Want to keep your computers, e-mails, and business secrets safe? Learn the latest in data encryption.  Read more

You’re Being Sued. Do You Know Where Your Data Is?

Once upon a time, you simply handed over the contents of your file cabinets to the lawyers. In the digital age, the task is much more complicatedâ€"and expen...  Read more

This Start-up Wants to Save You From Data Disaster

Axcient, which hopes to simplify data recovery for small businesses, has closed a $15.5 million funding round.  Read more

Why You Should Stop Reading This and Go Get a Data Backup Plan

Some half of small businesses never reopen after a data Armageddon. So why do less than half of small firms have plans if disaster strikes?  Read more

Would You Fire Someone for Taking Time Off to Donate a Kidney?

A mother's attempt to save her son spotlights holes in the Family and Medical Leave Act: It doesn't apply to businesses with fewer than 50 employees.  Read more

Would You Fire Someone for Scaring Off Robbers?

A Walgreens pharmacist fires a gun, he says, in self-defense, and then is fired.  Read more

Judge Orders Re-Hiring of Workers Fired for Facebook Complaints

A National Labor Relations Board judge says workers fired for off-duty griping about their jobs on Facebook should be re-hired.  Read more

Would You Fire Someone for Planking?

A GameStop employee posts a photo of himself planking, and gets himself and the co-worker who took the picture, fired.  Read more