General Security issues
SnapChat & Sexting
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- Dec, 06, 2013
- Kieran Cook
- News, Info and Safety, Social Media Challenges, Your safety
One of the most popular apps categories amongst young adults and teens are social/messaging apps. There are a plentiful supply of them too. Vine, Kik, WhatsApp, LINE, pinger, KakaoTalk, WeChat, Tango, Telegram, and of course Snapchat. Snapchat is a particularly interesting one from a business perspective since it is a company that has no revenue to […]
Read MoreHow to Enable 2 Factor Authentication in WordPress
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- Jun, 07, 2013
- Kieran Cook
- News, Info and Safety, Your safety
Following on from my post “2 Factor Authenitication – Why everyone needs it” – Here is a guide to give you some more tools to make sure you are safe online. The concepts in this presentation can be applied across the board, not just in WordPress. Most Public Domain email accounts now have 2 factor […]
Read More2 Factor Authentication – why everyone needs it.
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- May, 25, 2013
- Kieran Cook
- News, Info and Safety, Your safety
Once the exclusive domain of large corporate players, and high security institutions – 2 factor authentication is now a highly recommended, if not mandatory form of password security for everyone. I recently spent time with a client who’s public domain email account (such as yahoo, gmail, hotmail etc) was compromised, and altered to redirect […]
Read MoreApple, a bigger target than most think
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- Mar, 24, 2013
- Kieran Cook
- News, Info and Safety, Your safety
I have maintained for many years, the message that Apple has historically touted of being a “virus free platform” is not true. As Jennifer LeClaire of Newfactor reports here, “Apple has enough market share to be a viable target for attack.” This has been true for some time now. However it is becoming apparent that […]
Read MoreThat uneasy feeling you get when your computer suddenly turns off by itself…
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- Feb, 20, 2013
- Kieran Cook
- News, Info and Safety, Your safety
Oops!, Oh no! Argh!, Huh? *thud* These are the sounds most often heard after a loss of data, either through accidental deletion, or a hardware failure… That is, unless you have an effective data backup strategy in place. It used to be that backups were only for corporations, banks, and other businesses. This is definitely […]
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