The other day I really wasn’t paying much attention to the AM news station in my car until I heard a commercial for a web-based company imaginatively branded Reputation.com. I got to wondering about ...

Google's foray into reputation management is only beginning, experts say. June 17, 2011— -- Michael Fertik, CEO of Repuation.com, said he was excited to find more than 100 emails in his inbox ...

After last week’s “Does SEO = Spam” debate erupted, I had a number of follow-up emails where I explained privately more about why SEO has such a bad reputation in some quarters, as well as what SEO is ...

Virus writers and botmasters increasingly are turning to new subscription services that test when and whether malicious links have been flagged by Web reputation programs like Google Safe Browsing and ...

Protecting users from sites containing malicious content is a thankless task. The size of today’s Web makes it incredibly difficult. Find out why, and what we can do about it, in The Long View… These ...

PALM DESERT, Calif.--If you've spent any time online, you've almost certainly found yourself wondering about the trustworthiness of the people and Web sites you encounter every day. Already, ...

In 2007, Max Ray Vision was arrested by the FBI for credit card theft, having jacked over two million credit card numbers from various businesses, everyday people, and competing cyber-criminals.

In early December, a Canadian Web hosting company found out the hard way just what happens when the Internet turns on a business. It was at the height of the Wikileaks release of thousands of ...

One of the more interesting twists to come out of a recent conversation I had with Paul Pluschkell, the CEO of Spigit, was a novel way they're working with Cisco to change employee Web surfing habits.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Internet users are faced with an ever-growing spectrum of threats – from tailored attacks against specific ...