Posts Tagged ‘Apple’
Parenting for the Digital Native: Part Three — Securing Android Tech
Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● December 26, 2011
In this final installment of Parenting for the Digital Native, we conclude this series by looking at the other popular platform on the market for mobile devices — Android. While Apple has caught a fair amount of criticism over the controls and demands put upon developers, the Android operating system offers an alternative for app [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Do you Know Carrier IQ? Chances Are They Know You.
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● December 20, 2011
If you’ve never heard of something called Carrier IQ, then that’s probably about to change; all because of a potential privacy storm brewing about how cell phone companies may be using this technology to keep track of absolutely everything you do with your cell phone. Maybe not everything you say or text, but the jury [...]
Parenting for the Digital Native: Part 2 — Securing Data on our Apple Tech
Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● December 19, 2011
In Part One of our Parenting for a Digital Native series, we took a moment to lock down our Apple device of choice —iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch — so that younger Digital Native would not have access to content far from being child-friendly, as well as preventing certain sensitive data to be shared without [...]
Parenting for the Digital Native: Part 1 — Making Apple Tech Kid Friendly
Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● December 12, 2011
My child, the Digital Native. Her grandfather (my dad) is constantly amazed at what she can accomplish on the iPad. He claims it’s because the apple (pardon the pun) isn’t falling far from the tree. “I can’t do what you do,” my Dad tells me often. “You just sit behind a computer and just figure [...]
Mac-simum Security: Options for the Macs
Posted by: Matt Hines in: ● June 20, 2011
It’s a refrain that the Apple-loving hordes of Macanistas have been hearing from cyber-security experts for more than a decade: when the sheer number of people using the platform reaches a certain critical mass, more attacks will inevitably arrive. Recent evidence of this, including a scheme aimed at selling fake anti-virus software to Apple users, [...]
Cleaning the Smartphone Slate
Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● May 2, 2011
Do you have any inactive smartphones or cellphones in your house? Chances are you do; and as there is credit to be earned towards a brand new smartphone or a deduction to add to your tax report, donating an old cellphone to a charitable organization or recycling an older model phone is the smart, responsible, [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: The Dawn of the Mac Attack
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● March 16, 2011
It’s here, finally. The threat everyone — or at least Mac users — said would never happen. Security experts have just discovered what appears to be the first serious Trojan backdoor developed specifically for the Mac. So now Mac users can feel just as special and vulnerable as the rest of us. According to researchers, [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Attention, iTunes customers, change your passwords!
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● January 21, 2011
If you’re a user of iTunes and have an iTunes account, especially one connected to a PayPal account, you might want to log in, check your statements, and change your passwords. A number of media outlets are reporting another surge in the sale of seemingly hacked iTunes accounts – for sale openly on Chinese web [...]
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