All Posts Tagged With: "Security"
How To Remove Gmail Image Spam
Gmail does an amazing job of removing spam. Â I deliberately don’t empty my spam folder as I like to see how many spam messages I get a month - over the last 30 days I’ve received 17,512 spam emails.
Unfortunately, recently Gmail has been struggling to remove image spam where spammers embed the spam [...]
Who Says That There Isn’t Honour Amongst Thieves?
The ChronicleHerald (no I don’t read this newspaper-I found the story via Digg!) featured a story at the weekend that made me chuckle.
A Red Deer man (yes, it’s a real place) has been jailed after an outraged burglar spotted massive amounts of child pornography on his computer and called police. William Mitchell, was convicted after [...]
One In Twelve PCs In The UK Are Part Of Bot Nets
After spending a whole day in a security workshop, I’ve been on the look out for security related stories and I’ve just seen one that scared the life out of me. Despite the huge amount of education we in the ISP community have provided over the last couple of years, one in twelve computers [...]
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Will Vista Kill The Market For 3rd-Party Security Applications?
I was doing some desk research into the online security market today as I have a brainstorming workshop all day tomorrow at work to see if there are any areas that the company I’m working for at the moment can seize upon.
I came across a story on CNET stating that the public beta of Symantec’s [...]
MP3 Player Steals £200,000 From Cash Machines
I know that we shouldn’t applaud criminals, but you have to admire the ingenuity of some criminals:
A Manchester man has been convicted of fraud after he used an MP3 player to download bank card details from a cash machine.
Maxwell Parsons, 41, plugged the unspecified player in to the back of free-standing machines and then recorded [...]
Are WiFi Networks Dangerous For Kids?
A friend of mine called me today to ask if she should turn off her WiFi network, because she heard that they were dangerous for kids and that some schools were removing their networks.
This was the first I’d heard of this, but I guess it makes sense that if mobile phone masts are considered dangerous [...]
Microsoft Windows Comes Of Age - Happy 21st Birthday!
Believe it or not Windows is 21 years old on Monday. When it was launched in 1985 the PC market was barely out of it’s infancy, and whatever you may think of Microsoft it is amazing what they Bill Gates & Co have built in such a relatively short time.
Windows has been through many [...]
Popbitch Turns The Sun’s ‘Perv Hunt’ Back On Itself
Quality!
When a top tabloid newspaper decides to headline a story about an online paedophile register with the words ‘PERV HUNT .COM’, you’d think they’d register the website address first. But The Sun didn’t.
Instead, a wily Popbitch user grabbed it, and is pointing all the interest it has generated to… The Sun’s own Page 3 Rookies [...]
PicBlock: Block Porn Pictures From Displaying Automatically
I’ve never been a big fan of the way that most security services, particularly web filtering software operate. I hate the way they don’t really employ any intelligence about the content that is being viewed, and they either block a complete site or don’t, with no middle ground.
I don’t have any kids so my PC [...]
Does OpenDNS Really Speedup Web Pages?
I just read a post on Lifehacker about OpenDNS, a free service that claims to speedup web surfing sessions and offer phishing protection. The diagram I’ve poached tries to explain why.
OpenDNS provides free DNS server addresses which you enter on your home router or within your computer’s network settings. The service caches the billions of [...]
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