The Tech Lab

On March 10, 2020, Tom Burt, a cybersecurity executive at Microsoft, released a blog post about a significant step taken to corral one of the most prolific botnets we’ve ever seen. In coordination with worldwide ISPs, domain registrars and with court-approved action, Microsoft led the dismantling of the Necurs botnet…

Last week the Department of Homeland Security and Mozilla, an open source browser developer, warned users to update the popular Firefox browser. It seems that hackers have continued to cast their nets far and wide looking for holes in Internet infrastructure, both hardware and software. A case in point is…

Many technology executives will tell you: there's no such thing as privacy on the Internet. In many ways they are right. Whenever you sign up for any social media website, the information you share is collected in massive data warehouses managed by each of these services.

Have you had a Starwood Hotel guest reservation since 2014? If so, Starwood's full line of hotel brands, all owned by Marriott Corporation, has had its entire database breached by hackers that will impact up to 500 million customer accounts.

In the inbound marketing stack, there are a number of inter-connected tools used to attract, inform and convert existing customers and newly-found prospects. Social media, pay-per-click and programmatic digital advertising have emerged as leaders in both B2B and B2C marketing efforts. But, what about email marketing?

Within the last few days you may have heard that Twitter is self-reporting a potentially catastrophic event that could have been a major blow to online security. From all appearances and claims by Twitter, they escaped any hacker intrusions and your online access credentials have not been compromised.

In November 2017, I wrote an extensive post about the KRACKS cybersecurity threat against home and business Wi-Fi routers. It appears this particular threat has run its course, although vulnerable routers still exist all around the world. If your IT team updated your business routers, or if you did so…

I was part of the decision-making that led to the transformation of the original Netscape Browser into what is today known as Firefox. That took place in 2001 when we spun the entire browser team out of Netscape and provided the initial round of funding to set up the Mozilla…

If you ever walked into your business office and your iPhone, iPad, Android Phone or your notebook computer automatically re-connected with your company's Wi-Fi Router, you may be vulnerable. If you walk into a Starbucks, or your home office or den, and automatically re-connect with a router in those locations,…

Programmatic advertising is here to stay. This automated bid-buy-place-report ecosystem of advertising has demonstrated its ability to be a quick way to pulse digital ads efficiently and to do so across multiple media platforms from the comfort of the advertiser's or agency's office.

Google is doubling down on website security by doing something I consider very heavy-handed. But, when did Google do anything that was less than heavy-handed? However, I have some good news, and I have some bad news, and then I have some pretty good news.