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Privacy

A prescription for privacy protection: Exercise caution when using a mobile health app

A prescription for privacy protection: Exercise caution when using a mobile health app

Privacy

A prescription for privacy protection: Exercise caution when using a mobile health app

Given the unhealthy data-collection habits of some mHealth apps, you’re well advised to tread carefully when choosing with whom you share some of your most sensitive data

Phil Muncaster19 Mar 2024


How To

How to share sensitive data securely online

How to share sensitive data securely online

How To

How to share sensitive data securely online

Here are a few tips for secure file transfers and what else to consider when sharing sensitive documents so that your data remains safe

Phil Muncaster13 Mar 2024


Scams

Top 10 scams targeting seniors – and how to keep your money safe

Top 10 scams targeting seniors – and how to keep your money safe

Scams

Top 10 scams targeting seniors – and how to keep your money safe

The internet can be a wonderful place. But it’s also awash with fraudsters preying on people who are susceptible to fraud.

Phil Muncaster06 Mar 2024


Social Media

10 things to avoid posting on social media – and why

10 things to avoid posting on social media – and why

Social Media

10 things to avoid posting on social media – and why

Do you often take to social media to broadcast details from your life? Here’s why this habit may put your privacy and security at risk.

Phil Muncaster26 Feb 2024


Digital Security

Everything you need to know about IP grabbers

Everything you need to know about IP grabbers

Digital Security

Everything you need to know about IP grabbers

Unsuspecting users beware, IP grabbers do not ask for your permission.

Márk Szabó22 Feb 2024


How To

Watching out for the fakes: How to spot online disinformation

Watching out for the fakes: How to spot online disinformation

How To

Watching out for the fakes: How to spot online disinformation

Why and how are we subjected to so much disinformation nowadays, and is there a way to spot the fakes?

Márk Szabó20 Feb 2024


Cybercrime

The art of digital sleuthing: How digital forensics unlocks the truth

The art of digital sleuthing: How digital forensics unlocks the truth

Cybercrime

The art of digital sleuthing: How digital forensics unlocks the truth

Learn how the cyber variety of CSI works, from sizing up the crime scene and hunting for clues to piecing together the story that the data has to tell

Lucas Paus and Mario Micucci14 Feb 2024


Digital Security

Deepfakes in the global election year of 2024: A weapon of mass deception?

Deepfakes in the global election year of 2024: A weapon of mass deception?

Digital Security

Deepfakes in the global election year of 2024: A weapon of mass deception?

As fabricated images, videos and audio clips of real people go mainstream, the prospect of a firehose of AI-powered disinformation is a cause for mounting concern

Phil Muncaster13 Feb 2024


Video, Ransomware

Ransomware payments hit a record high in 2023 – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

Ransomware payments hit a record high in 2023 – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

Video, Ransomware

Ransomware payments hit a record high in 2023 – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

Called a "watershed year for ransomware", 2023 marked a reversal from the decline in ransomware payments observed in the previous year

Editor09 Feb 2024