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Teenagers, including children as young as eleven and twelve years old, are increasingly becoming involved in serious cyber-criminal activity that exposes themselves and the users they target to a full range of dangerous repercussions. According to Chris Boyd — a well-known security researcher who works for FaceTime Communications and was in Washington D.C. last week […]
Programs such as Spy Ware and Trojan Programs are designed to capture keyboard strokes. And it is often installed in the computer system to capture confidential user data without the user’s consent. To do away with such frauds, some banks have newly introduced the concept of Virtual Keyboard to protect your account or card information […]
STEVE Redman is pumped, and ready to save the world. The Hong Kong-based ex-Melburnian is four weeks into his new role as Asia Pacific president of security company McAfee. He came from enterprise software giant EMC where, he says, he “tried to get pumped about document management”. “But in IT security, I can make a […]
There’s a little confusion over the different coverage areas for antispyware and antivirus. A number of the standalone products have solved this question by incorporating antivirus protection. Here’s the lowdown: A computer virus is very specifically a program that “infects” other programs with its own code. When an unsuspecting user launches an infected program, the […]
Nasty computer spywares are not just being used by hackers for stealing personal data like passwords and credit card details but also by suspicious spouses and parents to monitor and control web activities of their partners and children. “With so much of our lives dependent on computers and other technologies such as cell phones, the […]
By the end of 2007, at least 8,000 URLs (Uniform Resource Locators is the technical term for web addresses) using the word “iphone” will be registered, according to a well known domain expert. The most valuable – iphone.com – is owned by Apple itself, but when Steve Jobs announced the product early in 2007, Apple […]
A recent study on Cybercrime involving 1400 men and women in the UK has revealed that in spite of a widespread awareness of Cybertheft (the majority of people still expect to be a victim of some kind of cybercrime than physical assault or robbery in the street) there is still a worrying level of complacency […]
