Be aware of typosquatting premium rate text scams
Premium rate text messages are a useful and highly convenient way of using a mobile to charge for a service or product, or to make a donation to a worthy cause. You simply send a text message with a...
View ArticleLinkedin, eHarmony and now Last.fm all fail their customers in the same week
It seems the Iron Curtain may be re-emerging this week as Russian hackers first disclose 6.5m passwords from Linkedin, followed by 1.5m passwords from eHarmony, and then Last.fm with an undisclosed...
View ArticleYahoo hack exposes 453,000 unencrypted passwords
We blogged last month about how Linkedin, eHarmony and Last.fm all failed their customers in the space of a week. We said at the time that this won’t be the last in a sorry list of customer security...
View ArticleTwitter reminds us why we need lots of passwords
Just last week, Twitter became the latest casualty of poor Internet security when it fessed up to hackers having stolen account details for 250,000 of its users. As I’ve reported before, this type of...
View ArticleGuest Post: Why BlackBerry will solve BYOD
In the interconnected age, the line between personal/professional mobile use is gone. YouTube now syncs with your Gmail account, providing your search and viewing histories, amongst other information,...
View ArticleAnonymity: How O2 was giving out your mobile number online
Last week many people were alarmed and outraged to find out that under certain circumstances, if you browsed the web with your mobile, the website owners could discover your telephone number! This is...
View ArticleBusiness and the two mobile conundrum
Over the years it has become increasingly more common to have two mobile phones, your own personal one, and one issued by your place of work. With the trend in increased phone sizes and some...
View ArticleHave Twitter and others been stealing your private mobile data?
It seems unlikely to think that some of the more popular mobile apps would be taking personal and private data from your mobile and storing it on their own servers for whatever purpose they deem...
View ArticleThe two mobile conundrum – Solved!
Well, maybe! We blogged a few weeks ago about the issues facing workers who are forced to use two mobiles, one for work and one personal, and the ‘bring a device to work’ trend of using your personal...
View ArticleWill Facebook fight for your right to privacy as a job seeker?
Well, probably not, but you never know! For a number of weeks now, rumours have been floating around in the ether that certain unscrupulous employers are asking job seekers in interviews to hand over...
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