With the web infested with lurking scammers, spammers, phishers and similar ne’er do wells, it’s important to make sure you have a really strong password – and that you change it from time to time.
Sadly, there’s still folks out there using abysmally bad passwords – and the worst 25 passwords used in 2011 have now been posted online for your amusement.
As keen street photographers, we’ve been growing more irritated by the growing interference we have to suffer from clueless security guards, who have unilaterally decided that photography is some sort of crime.
When a steenkin’ thief sneaked into interaction designer Joshua Kaufman’s apartment and made off with his shiny MacBook, the burglar probably thought he’d committed the perfect crime – but a secret security app has been snapping him ever since.
Now this sounds very dodgy indeed. Researchers have discovered that 3G-enabled Apple iPhones and iPads have been secretly storing a long list of users’ locations and time stamps, effectively creating a secret tracking file.
We love stuff like this: a new, no nonsense site called, “How Secure Is My Password,” offers to do one thing and one thing only – check your password and tell you how secure it is.
If you’ve ever had that sinking feeling at the end of a long night when you discover your precious iPhone has iLegged it somewhere, then Apple’s new Find My iPhone app could be just the ticket.
Security bods Sophos are warning that what’s been called the ‘LOL’ phishing attack is continuing to fester on the web, and not just by direct message.
With phising attacks on the rise, and ne’er do wells dreaming up ever more cunning ways to persuade people to perilously part with their precious personal data, the folks at loginhelper have whipped up a handy explanatory ‘flow chart.’
With a set of results sure set to send Apple fanboys howling at the Moon in disbelief, a recent study claims that Macs are far more insecure than Windows PCs, due partly to the attitude of its users and the relative obscurity of the platform.
An Eset survey conducted last year showed that when Apple users fell for phishing crime they tended to lose a load more dosh than your average Windows PC user, mainly because the majority of cyber crime victims are targeted via social engineering attacks rather than more traditional viruses (see graphic below).
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