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News Archive - April 2008
30, April 2008
What's to say you can trust the people, companies and organizations you give your personal data to? The following is all hypothetical, but there's no reason it couldn't happen....
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29, April 2008
Australia's largest bank - the Commonwealth Bank has decided to forge ahead with plans to introduce biometrics in a bid to increase security for online banking customers. Critics of...
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28, April 2008
The good old UK Government has done it again. The Driving Standards Agency has admitted losing over 3 million learner driver details. The details were being handled by...
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23, April 2008
It seems the average computer user still doesn't understand the dangers of answering unsolicited emails, or clicking on links in emails that might be even remotely suspicious. If you...
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22, April 2008
It's no longer households and ordinary citizens who are being hit by identity thieves who steal personal data to set up bank accounts and take out loans in other people's...
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21, April 2008
Public transport users in the Australian state of Queensland have been introduced to a new ticketing system based on the widely used Oyster fare system. The "Go Card" is...
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20, April 2008
There are easy steps you can take to secure your laptop from thieves. Well, the data, anyway. Yes, losing the actual machine is never good and yes, it's...
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19, April 2008
Further to yesterday's piece on "Crimeware as a service"... we had some feedback from people wanting to know more about the way the operation might work. Not being in...
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18, April 2008
Criminals are taking hacking to the next level. Instead of spending the time and money to set up hacking centres of their own, blackmarket organisations are now networking to...
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17, April 2008
The proliferation of "drive-by-downloads" has prompted Microsoft into action, with the company delivering crucial Vista patches this week. The patches will apparently fix several critical flaws in the software....
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16, April 2008
The US Homeland Security Department is on a mission: an overhaul of computer security in response to claims that the USA's internet network is a potential target for hackers and...
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15, April 2008
In a recent study by the British Office of Fair Trading nearly a third of all British retail websites were in breach of at least one aspect of British legislation...
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14, April 2008
Today's news: Happy 60th Birthday to my father! :) ...
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13, April 2008
In a bid to reduce fraudulent transactions and to make potential buyers more confident in web security, internet auction giant eBay has announced it will upgrade its consumer security measures....
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12, April 2008
US search engine-cum-portal, Yahoo! has thumbed its nose at software giant Microsoft's ultimatum to accept its takeover proposal within three weeks. Yahoo!'s Chairman and its CEO issued a statement...
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11, April 2008
Believe it or not, a growing area of online fraud comes from the purchase and sale of exotic and illegal pets. Two main types of scams are reported: 1)...
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10, April 2008
Well, it's official. Crime on the internet is on the increase, and you could be next. The latest report from The Internet Crime Complaint Center (co-run by the...
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09, April 2008
Google has always been known as an innovator in the online space but the new offline capability of Google's new word processor makes it a major competitor to Microsoft Word....
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08, April 2008
An Irish man was so angry about being defrauded in an online scam he traveled to Ghana to get his money back, where he was kidnapped and held for ransom....
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07, April 2008
Warner Music, one of the mail record labels in the world, is in talks at the moment with a number of ISPs in the United Kingdom to discuss a proposal...
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06, April 2008
Not long ago I wrote a piece about Apple Mac users needing to pay more attention to internet security. For years Apple had only 2% of the computer market...
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05, April 2008
Dell, the world's second largest computer maker, has said it intends to save $3 billion over the next three years by cutting costs, including closing a manufacturing plant in Texas....
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04, April 2008
A young man with a mild form of autism has escaped jail after being convicted of serious computer crime. Owen Walker, 18, from New Zealand, infected at least 1.3...
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03, April 2008
I've had an iPhone for a couple of weeks now. This certainly isn't the best phone I've ever had, but I love it. I love the functionality, the...
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02, April 2008
Yesterday I wrote about how hard it is to delete an account from Facebook, which poses security issues. Today I'd like to do a little bit of a Facebook...
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01, April 2008
From a purely security oriented perspective it amazes me that people are extremely concerned with the security of personal information when logging into online banking but they don't seem to...
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