After tech activist Aaron Swartz’ death, Anonymous decided that the justice system in the US was deeply flawed. Swartz, who was an essential player in the design of web feed RSS and the social news site Reddit, was arrested by the federal government for downloading JSTOR academic journal articles shortly before his death.

If you’re a busy business owner, you’re probably going through scores of emails every day. Email allows everyone to stay in touch, no matter where they are and what they’re doing. Email is essential in everyday business operations, but that doesn’t mean it’s perfect.

Chrome isn’t quite ready for Android devices – in fact, the program just entered beta – but it’s already exciting many of the Google circles because of its smooth layout and ability to sync.

Google released the new version of Chrome about a week ago.

Day-to-day operations require massive amounts of devotion and time. If there’s a problem with your network, it can take hours, if not days, to fix it on your own. Then, once you do get it up and running again, there’s no telling what kind of data you lost and how much revenue you threw away because of a small network hiccup.

Although it may seem like you are infringing on basic rights when you block certain websites and categories on your business network, in reality it’s simply encouraging your employees to stay on track when they otherwise may get distracted. Not only are you increasing productivity, you’re decreasing security risks as well.

It’s likely in the next year or so that we’ll see massive increases in cyberthreats such as more cyberattacks, hacking for profit, and more activity in well-known hacking groups such as Anonymous. According to McAfee, hackers are going to refine and evolve their techniques this upcoming year in ways that will take advantage of not only our wallets, but our personal data.

There’s no reason that you should neglect opportunities to network and find more business simply because you’re in a car or in a plane. In fact, you may have a ton of extra time while you’re travelling, and that’s time that can be spent being productive.

Which do you think will contain malware: an adult website, or one that talks about religion? Most of us would assume it would be the adult website, but most of us would be wrong. Symantec conducted a recent study that indicated that many hackers and digital attackers have evolved.

Cybercrime isn’t going away, and in fact it’s increasing each year by thousands of reports. In the 2012 Security Threat Report by SOPHOS, the company urges all small companies and individuals to step up their game, saying that we “need to be ready for attacks on new platforms and devices—all the places we use data for work and our personal lives,” and that “cybercriminals are becoming more professionalized through the availability of commercial crimeware kits… the result is mass generation of new malicious code and exploits, and a significant increase in the volume of malware.

If you don’t remember all of the passwords you use for your accounts, or you don’t feel comfortable typing them into every computer that you visit, the makers of Firefox have a new solution called Persona.

Persona just went into first Beta and is part of Mozilla’s BrowserID project.