A friend of mine recently had her webmail account “hacked”. We don’t know what method the “hackers” used to get into her webmail account but they then sent out an email to all the contacts in her address book which contained a link to a malicious web site. I emailed her to provide her with some [...]
Archive for the ‘Privacy’ Category
How do I stay safe online this Christmas?
Posted: December 23, 2011 in Misc, Mobile, Privacy, SecurityTags: android, Christmas, iCloud, ipad, iphone, Malicious Software, Microsoft, mobile, New Year's resolution, phone hacking, privacy, protection, security, smart phone, strong password, User (computing), User Account Control
Firstly apologies for the lack of blogs lately. One of my New Year’s resolutions is definitely to blog more and provide you all with some great content. With that in mind I thought I would start as I mean to go on so here’s an article on how to stay safe and secure this Christmas… [...]
A case of mistaken identity
Posted: May 13, 2011 in Misc, PrivacyTags: identity theft, IdentityTheft, Personally identifiable information, privacy
Quite ironically I watched a film last week called Erasing David. In short this film documents one man’s mission to discover how much information private companies and the government know about him and then he attempts to disappear whilst challenging two private investigators to use his identity trail to catch him. (The film’s worth a [...]
Security – Are we doing enough?
Posted: April 28, 2011 in Facebook Security, Malware, Misc, PrivacyTags: anti-virus, awareness, DHS, education, facebook, hacking, homeland security, identity theft, Malware, national cyber security division
Everywhere we turn today whether it be reading newspapers, watching the news, reading Facebook posts or Twitter feeds we are constantly reminded to “Stay Secure”, “Change your password”, “Use a different email address”, “Protect your credit card details”, “Only use HTTPS”, “Don’t add friends you don’t know”, “Use anti-virus oh and a firewall”, “Cover the [...]
