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Home And Small Office IT Security

Security tips specifically for the home and small office user. Including how to spot phishing attacks, securing your home pc, securing wireless networks and other computer security tips

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The wisdom of the crowd? Not with Passwords!

By ⋅ 02 May 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Passwords, the ever present staple of computer security everywhere. But how effective are they? Well that depends on the password. A password should be hard to guess, but must be easy to remember. If it’s not easy to remember, then as any Security professional will tell you, users have a nasty habit of writing it down. I for one know of several people that write down all of their passwords in a book.

Why We’re All Responsible For SPAM

By ⋅ 01 April 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Internet lore has it that the first spam message was sent in May 1978. It was sent to around 600 recipients, and wasn’t selling cheap medication, but a new computer and operating system.

One Simple Way Of Securing Your WordPress (or any CMS!) Based Website

By ⋅ 16 March 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

CMS’s or Content Management Systems provide a simple (normally web based) method of creating and updating websites. One of the main ideas behind a CMS is that it negates the need of the owner / user to understand the intricacies of HTML / JAVASCRIPT & server side programming languages. Instead it provides an easy to use interface, [...]

Computer Worms: The Virus Hits The Internet

By ⋅ 19 February 2012 ⋅ One comment

This week, we’re looking at computer worms, and how they differ from other types of Malware out there. As I mentioned in the last post, the dividing lines between different types of malware are being blurred as attackers find ever more sophisticated ways of infecting computers

What is a Trojan Horse Computer Virus?

By ⋅ 27 January 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

For this series of posts, Ive decided to go back to basics, and set out some definitions for terms that are increasingly appearing in the media. This post deals with the Trojan Horse variety of computer virus. We all know that computer viruses are bad, their function can vary from attacks designed to infect as [...]

Dissecting A Pirate Software eShop

By ⋅ 30 October 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

In this post I examine a Pirate Software eShop, and delve into the background information

The Four Elements Of Home PC Security

By ⋅ 03 August 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Whilst setting up a network for a friend recently, it struck upon me the various software and hardware appliances that must now be in place to protect from the most common threats out there on the Internet. Here, I round up what I consider to be the four elements of any secure home PC / [...]

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