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Considering a Router Upgrade? Consider Carefully!

July 29, 2010

I fairly regularly get e-mails asking why I’m still recommending an “old style” router (802.11g standard) in my security e-book The Hacker’s Nightmare, even though routers boasting a faster/better/more modern standard (802.11n) have been available for quite some time. It’s been on my to-do list to write an article explaining my reasons for this. However, [...]

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ClickBook: a great tool at the right price…

July 15, 2010

Just a quick off-topic but money-saving interjection folks. In a hurry? Click here for a ClickBook discount Regular readers of this blog will know how much I absolutely *LOVE* the fantastic printing utility ClickBook. I’ve been using it for years now, and it’s one of those programs I just wouldn’t want to be without. After [...]

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Microsoft Patches & Updates for July 2010

July 14, 2010

This month’s patch activity involves four security bulletins which address five vulnerabilities in Windows and Microsoft Office. The Microsoft Update process will automatically determine if you have software installed that requires any or all of the following, so there’s no need you to agonise over which to apply and which to ignore. However, just so [...]

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New Phishing Threats

June 11, 2010

Owners of my security e-book The Hacker’s Nightmare have been too well educated to ever be caught by scams like the following. However they are exactly the type of thing that catches millions of less wary people on a regular  basis. TWITTER TWADDLE! The scumbag spam brigade is currently inundating e-mail in-boxes with fake messages [...]

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Microsoft Patches & Updates for June 2010

June 9, 2010

Microsoft Updates time is here again, and this is an exceptionally large and very important batch of patches and updates. Exactly how many will apply to you depends on your Windows/Office versions, but in total Microsoft has classified 3 updates as “critical” and seven as “important”, designed to fix a total of 34 vulnerabilities. On [...]

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Dreaming the Future

June 6, 2010

I’m sure we all wonder at times what advancements the future holds. One way to free up your imagination to roam unrestricted is to compare the past with the present. My brother sent me the first image below as a matter of interest and I used the details to dig up further information. In 1956 [...]

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Microsoft Patches & Updates for May 2010

May 12, 2010

Microsoft Updates time is here again! On the second Tuesday of each month Microsoft releases software patches & updates for their various products, so this is a very important day for all Windows users who care about their privacy and security [full summary here]. Why? Well.. Often a Microsoft patch or update will close a [...]

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Social Networking Self-Defense: Part II

April 29, 2010

In Part 2 of this series I want to talk about protecting your social networking account, and it all boils down to… PASSWORDS And No… you probably don’t already know everything you need to know about passwords, so you really need to keep reading. I’m going to show you exactly some of the ways the [...]

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