Yesterday, the BBC along with getsafeonline.org published the results of a survey about Internet safety. There are some interesting, yet not all that surprising percentages in the stats.
The biggest eye opener is that less than half of us actually realise that the responsibility for protecting our personal data starts with us as users. One [...]

If you are using mobile Internet devices, do you have secure network access and a company usage procedure? This may sound like overkill but mobile malware is a growing threat. According to Sophos’ Security Threat Report 2007, sixty four percent of companies have admitted they do not have any protection in place on their mobile [...]

The technology headlines are dominated this week by security issues. Specifically in the UK, the government has produced guidelines to educate on the issue of cyber-bullying while globally the latest Sophos report reveals that Asian spammers are more now prevalent that US spammers for the first time ever.
The anti-virus companies are of course riding high [...]

It’s very rare to type a phrase into Google Suggest and be told that there are only 205 results. But such is the case for “ransomware.”
Even more astonishing is that ransomware was brought to my attention by the Manchester Evening News today. My daily browse of BBC Online, The Register and ZDNet.com did not bring [...]

The rise of the machines continues apace, and it behoves us, puny mortals that we are, to race into a mechanistic state to avoid being crushed under their metallic robo-feet. On a rare trip into the dragon’s den of R&D, June, our head of accounts, was talking to me of this syndrome of robotisation – [...]