Posts Tagged ‘WIFI’
IN THE HEADLINES: Cyberstalking and Identity Theft Can Be Closer Than You Think
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● July 28, 2011
You never have to look far for crazy and sometimes disturbing stories about how people we live amongst, from neighbors to family members, can use our identities to mess with our lives. Take the case of the editor of a local magazine in Spokane, Washington who was recently charged with identity theft and cyber stalking. [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Android Under Attack
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● May 31, 2011
If you’re one of the millions of people (like me) who use an Android-powered phone, then you might want to pay a little more attention to the apps that you download. While there’s nothing new about malicious apps targeted at Android phones, a recent study found a massive spike in attacks on the Android mobile [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Unsecured Home Wi-Fi Gets New York Man Arrested
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● May 11, 2011
I recently blogged about how a Florida man was mistakenly arrested on charges of possessing millions of child pornography images, only to find that the real culprit lived nearby and had been using the man’s unprotected Wi-Fi network to download and share the images. Well, looks like it’s happened again. According to a story on [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: How Unsecured Wi-Fi Can Get You Arrested!
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● March 25, 2011
Do you have a wireless network in your home? Any idea how secure it is? Ever change the password the wireless router originally came with? These are not unimportant questions, because if you have not properly secured your wireless network, you could be creating easy opportunities for criminals to do bad things in your name. [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Wireless networks continue to pose risks
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● November 10, 2010
It’s human nature to trade risk for convenience. We do it all the time, find ways to do things faster, better, easier, or cheaper, knowing that by choosing convenience we may be increasing our exposure to risk. But we roll the dice anyway. Public Wi-Fi hot spots are a great example of this. I know [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: How Safe Is Your Home Network?
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● August 5, 2010
I’ve been using a home wireless network almost as long as they’ve been around, and I love them. My current wireless router is getting a bit long in the tooth – almost seven years old – but it never lets me down. I have four computers connected to it, I use it to make phone [...]
The Low Tech Approach
Posted by: Matt Sarrel in: ● July 19, 2010
So many high tech security products (especially for protecting our computers) have come out over the past few years that most people have lost sight of the basic fundamentals. Although those who make complex security solutions would like us to believe we can only be safe if we buy the most expensive and complicated product [...]
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