If someone else had access to your email account, how much damage could they do? Imagine handing over your Facebook, Twitter or Paypal login details to a criminal…in fact, how do you know it hasn’t already happened? Well for starters head to https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords Here you can quickly search to see if your email address is among the over 500 million[Read More…]
Security cameras are a great tool to deter thieves, but you don’t have to spend thousands of dollars to set one up. Using your computer, a web-cam and a free program called “iSpy” you can have some home surveillance up and running in just a few minutes. The program can be set to motion sensitive video recording which means it[Read More…]
The Facebook social network is a great way to share anything and everything with friends…but if you don’t have your privacy settings right then you could be over-sharing with people you don’t know. One easy way to view how other people view your Facebook page is to use the website www.profilewatch.org. Once you type in the address of your facebook[Read More…]
This week the World Wide Web turns 21 and if you watched the London Olympics opening ceremony you may have spotted its inventor. It was on August 6 1991 that the very first web page from British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee was made available online but whatever you do don’t confuse the World Wide Web with The Internet. The Internet[Read More…]
The latest community threat report released by AVG Technologies reveals and Android Bootkit that turns smartphones into “Zombies”, a malicious Trojan inside an unofficial Angry Birds app and PC users are still being tricked into clicking by sex and scandal. This week I spoke with AVG AU/NZ security advisor Michael McKinnon about these threats and some tips on prevention. You[Read More…]
