Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● September 10, 2010
You can be sure that any story with the words “kids” and “roulette” in it is not going to end well. If your kids are pretty typical – they’re curious, adventurous, take some risks they shouldn’t (maybe because they don’t see them as risks), and they have a web cam, then you should know about [...]
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● August 31, 2010
It’s estimated that more than 85% of US consumer have a cell phone, and increasingly those cell phones are smart phones. But just because your phone is smart, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s smart enough to be secure. There are more than a dozen ways your smart phone, and any other cell phone, can expose you [...]
Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● August 16, 2010
Facebook has been discussing the notion of a dislike button. The reason for such a tool is to show a shared disdain in your community for something you happen to be posting on your page. Today, as reported by Mashable’s Stan Schroeder, there is a new Facebook phishing scam, this one working under the deception [...]
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● June 11, 2010
iPad owners targeted by hackers It was just a few weeks ago that security experts announced the first ever virus targeted at an Apple iPad, only to admit very quickly that it wasn’t really targeted at the iPad but iPad owners. There’s always a time lag between the launch of an exciting new product and [...]
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Posted by: Jerry Thompson in: ● May 3, 2010
If you are not already aware of this fact, let me state it plain and simple: The days when hackers were only interested in your bank and brokerage account user names and passwords just to clean out your accounts are long gone. Oh, they’re still out there; but there is a very robust market for [...]
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