Data Security in the Wake of the Dell Breach: Practical Measures for Consumers and Business Owners

Oh look, it's another day on the Internet and another notice that our private data held by a business has been compromised.  It must be a day ending

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Protecting Your Website Against Hackers

Let’s face it. When you have a website, there are those out there who will try to hack it. Why? Sometimes the purpose is malicious and sometimes, the

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Will Your Site Be Marked As Insecure?

Back in October 2016, Google announced that Chrome 56 would mark non-secure pages containing password and credit card input fields as Not Secure in the URL bar. This is

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Ransom Ware: Protect Yourself

Ransom ware is dreadful stuff.  Ransom wear is a virus (basically) that encrypts the contents of your computer. The hackers then request money to unlock it. When I

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Chrome sends your passwords to Google?

On twitter the other day, I saw the status “WTF? #Chrome now *by default* sends all of your passwords to #Google so now I have to change all

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Apple Accounts Held To Ransom – Securing your accounts

“Device hacked by Oleg Pliss. For unlock device, you need send voucher code by 100 usd/eur (Moneypack/Ukash/PaySafeCard) to [ email address withheld ] for unlock.” Many apple device users

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W3 Total Cache Leaves Sites Open to Compromise (WordPress)

W3 Total Cache (W3TC) leaves WordPress websites vulnerable to compromise.  The vulnerability was discoved by researcher, Jason A. Donenfeld and reported on one of the seclists.org forums recently.

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Your Business, You and Credit Card Security

A few months ago, Australia was introduced to the new ‘paypass’ technology.  No longer do we need to enter a PIN when making payments using our bank cards

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Identify Yourself! Financial Institutions: Social Engineering At It’s Best???

Social Engineering: is the art of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information, rather than by breaking in or using technical cracking techniques…. In most cases

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