[ad] Well Google has been getting quite a lot of flack lately over the fact that it had been scanning open Wi-fi access points whilst compiling data for street view. At first people just thought it’s fair enough, they are just scanning for the SSID and recording if it’s publicly accessible or not – which […]
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Australians Propose ‘No Anti-virus – No Internet Connection’ Policy
[ad] So after a year of research and debate, what did the Aussies come up with? A policy to disconnect people from the Internet if they get infected by a virus.. Rather naive isn’t it? Plus if your ISP cuts you off, how exactly are you supposed to resolve the problem without a connection to […]
iPhone 4 Pre-Order System Exposes Customer Data
[ad] The big talk over the past weekend was about this, the AT&T system for recording pre-sales records for the new Apple iPad exposed account information. I didn’t think it was a big deal until they did something similar again today with the iPhone 4…the second time in one week – that must be some […]
FTC Cracks Down On Spyware Seller CyberSpy Software
Well this case has taken a while but the FTC won in the end and reached a settlement two years after halting the company from selling it’s “100 per cent undetectable” commercial keylogging application. It’s interesting to see court cases that venture into the grey area of ethics, I think the main problem stemmed from […]
iPhone Security Flaw – Using a PIN Won’t Protect Your Data
[ad] Now it wasn’t long ago when the first malicious iPhone worm appeared in the wild and well generally since the boom of the device people have looking at the security measures. Huge sales are made to corporates touting the security, privacy and encryption features of the iPhone OS. The latest discovery is that using […]