ANALYSIS – This article highlights the fact that even with the negative publicity, the risk of lawsuit or loss of personal information, P2P applications remain extremely popular. The application is supposedly installed on 36.4% of all PCs -approximately 1.66 million desktops worldwide, making it the current leader in P2P market share. Interestingly, the article also [...]

ALERT – Blog. At least that is what more and more people are turning to when they want to express themselves. As with most applications, blogging is not inherently bad. However, it makes sense to have a clear blogging policy. There are many potential reasons to have an explicit blogging policy — ranging from avoiding [...]

ANALYSIS – Google Desktop is one of those applications that can be seen as a productivity tool by end-users and a huge security hole by security experts. This CSO article outlines how Google Desktop works and some of the potential ramifications of the indexing and search functions if not configured correctly. More interesting is the [...]