Webroot survey finds that 52% of people don’t check for an HTTPS connection before making purchases and 23% feel safe when using free, public wireless connections for e-commerce.
Know how to shop safe this holiday season. That’s the warning from a new study of online shopping habits, which found that 52% of people don’t check for an HTTPS connection before making...
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Wireless Internet access is available at most coffee shops, bookstores, airports, and hotels around the world. But how safe is it?
Automatic Wireless Connections
When it comes to wireless, many laptops will connect to “Any available network” and “Automatically connect to non-preferred networks”. Convenient? Yes. But also risky....
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– social network hackers are in for the kill. Social network hacking and security breaches are becoming more and more prominent these days. Hackers set up fake profiles and attempt to gather personal and confidential information as your ‘friend’, using malicious code and malware to infiltrate systems. Hackers rely on the trust and ignorance of other social network users to gain access to...
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Back in the 1990s fellow science and technology journalist Charles Mann and I wrote a book uncovering the true story of how a lone, young, cognitively impaired hacker with relatively few computer skills managed to perpetrate what was then the most extensive and scariest series of computer break-ins ever — government weapons labs, dam control systems and ATM networks were among the hundreds...
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You’ve seen it all over the place… Privacy Concerns, Security Issues, Identity Stolen, Dangers of Social Networking, Social Media Threats, Personal Information Sold. All too often Facebook is the culprit; notorious for breaching the confidences of the hundreds of millions of users who have profiles on the ever-popular Social Networking site. The Wall Street Journal reported ...
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LONDON: Wireless internet networks in millions of homes can be hacked in less than five seconds.
The wi-fi hacking means criminals can spy on the activities of families, perhaps stealing their identity and banking details to raid their accounts, says a new study.
The hackers could also use the wi-fi access to tap into illegal pornography...
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Rogue scripts, fake antivirus programs and infected PDFs: Defend yourself against the web’s most insidious threats.
You know to keep your antivirus program and patches up to date, to be careful where you go on the internet, and to exercise online street-smarts to resist being tricked into visiting a phishing site or downloading a Trojan horse.
But when you’ve got the basics...
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Recent IT audits highlight major security IT issues in Irish Businesses and as reported by RTE the cybercriminals are now targeting Irish business with Ransomware and other compromising programs, holding businesses hostage to them....
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