A missing dot in an email address might mean messages end up in the hands of cyber thieves, researchers have found. By creating web domains that contained commonly mistyped names, the investigators received emails that would otherwise not be delivered. Over six months they grabbed 20GB of data made up of 120,000 wrongly sent messages. [...]
07
Jun
Google to abandon older browsers
A recent news item stated “Google to abandon older browsers “. Google is phasing out support for older browsers from 1 August. Those using IE7, Safari 3, Firefox 3.5 and their predecessors to view Gmail, Google Calendar, Talk, Docs and Sites will then lose some functions. Eventually, it warned, these web services will stop working [...]
04
Apr
Scam awareness week
This week is scam awareness week. According to statistics New Zealand loses up to $450 million in scams every year. Online scams are a large portion of that. Demography wise the elderly are most vulnerable ( I think it is because they are more trusting & not very tech savvy) The biggest portion seems to [...]
02
Apr
Malware sites
Yesterday I was searching the net for a Rotary Club logo. I need it for a project I am doing at present. There a few sites that had good images. I clicked on one on of them on Google. And the next thing I knew what some sort of scan was going on of my [...]
28
Feb
Free Vacation Scams
They almost got me today on the phone! This is how it goes. Ma’ am you have been selected with four others for a free vacation in Florida. (of course – where else). Oh by the way Visa International has selected me. The sponsors are canpakvacation.com I did a bit of digging & found out [...]
03
Feb
Password Managers
I wanted to write about password managers after reading about IE vulnerability. The news item on TV said – if you click a link in the email you receive or even click a link in an infected website the hacker can hijack your hard drive and steal your passwords. This sows the seed for identity [...]
01
Feb
Why I use FireFox Browser
I came across this article in the tech section of BBC website. I know people who use only IE for browsing. Have tried to educate my clients over the years to change. All of them did not know about the potential problems in using IE. Many do no upgrade the browsers to the later version [...]
20
Dec
Secure Passwords
How secure are your online passwords? Not at all. Last week gawker- an online gossip site got hacked & 1.3 millions user accounts was compromised. Their passwords were published online! Millions of web users are being asked to reset their passwords as concerns spread over a major hacking attack. Yahoo, Twitter and LinkedIn have asked [...]
20
Apr
How to Avoid Online Crime
Hi-tech criminals are racking up more than 100 attacks a second on the world’s computers, a survey suggests. The wave of attacks was driven by a steep rise in malicious software in circulation, said the annual report.The number of malware (malicious software) samples that Symantec saw in 2009 was 71% higher than in 2008. – [...]
28
Oct
Virus on your PC
Recently one of my customers site was spiking in traffic and blowing the bandwidth. The first day I increased the bandwidth. But it blew it the next day. Seemed a bit fishy to me. I thought I would investigate the matter and when I logged into the FTP program I saw a folder called blog [...]
