Gary Eckstein General Technology 0 anti-virus, antivirus, Australia, Canada, chat rooms, computer identity, computer protection, facebook, Hong Kong, information theft, korea, malware, New Zealand, Online, Privacy, privacy safeguards, scammers, security, social networking, social networking sites, Software, technology, virus protection
This week is ‘Privacy Awareness Week’ 2010 and as such it is urged that we familiarise ourselves with our rights, obligations and best-practice in relation to privacy. The few recommendations below, from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, are related to Computer identity and information theft. They are well worth reading through: Make [...]
Gary Eckstein General Technology 0 anti-virus, internet scam, malware
Well done to Trend Micro for their latest Australian TV adverts. They are excellent (my favorite below):
Gary Eckstein General Technology 7 anti-virus, apache, claroline, content management system, feedreader, filezilla, firefox, freeware, google, gpl, lms, malware, moodle, php, picasa, rss reader, Software, sourceforge, WordPress, xampp
There is so much software out there, some good and some really not great at all. I am however continually amazed that people are prepared to pay for software when there is a better free alternative available. Below is my favourite software that is free to use and provides exceptional productivity gains: Notepad++ Category: Text [...]
Gary Eckstein General Technology 0 anti virus software, anti-virus, cyber crime, cyber criminals, internet security, internet security software, microsoft security, security essentials, security threats, small business
Malware is a generic term for I.T. related security issues such as phishing, viruses, Trojans and other harmful and unwanted I.T. activities. Malware infection is very widespread and the method of attack is constantly evolving and becoming more sophisticated. Internet crime (of which security is the central pillar in the fight against this type of [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 0 anti-virus, blacklisted sites, domain names, free url, google, internet security software, malware, spammers, top level domains, twitter
The 140 character limit in Twitter combined with its incredible success has been welcomed by phishers, spammers, Trojan and virus developers and other malicious content providers (we’ll call them ‘malware’ in this article). As most Twitter users know, URLs are typically shortened using URL shorteners such as Bit.ly (which also powers j.mp) and Tr.im (which [...]
