June 24th, 2008
Logging in to check progress of a recent sale on ebay this morning I got this interesting message. On the surface it looks like a good way for ebay to have confidence it is indeed you that is placing products for sale in their listings. But this may be more about appearance than real security.
Confirming [...]
June 13th, 2008
Britcaster.com - the original home of the Uk’s podcaster community - still ticks over in a lazy backwater of the internet receiving a handful of new show registrations each week. It also receives twice as many spammer registrations - but not any longer.
Spammers use any and all online forms in an attempt to create a [...]
January 15th, 2008
In my email inbox this morning was a lovely message from ebay letting me know my account had been locked down due to it having been hacked. Great. So, not knowing exactly what, where, or when, the best policy was to spend some time locking down any other accounts by updating passwords.
I was pretty impressed [...]
November 2nd, 2007
MacWorld reports a genuine Trojan risk on Mac OSX
It was always inevitable that the stronger market share Apple achieve, the more chance there is of the less desirable elements of the internet world to want to attack its system and users. Though nowhere near as vulnerable as most Windows systems, we will certainly see an [...]
June 8th, 2007
I first wrote about my initial experience with Mozy’s online backup service here, and although I found it a very straightforward and pleasant experience, the Mac OSX version of their backup client simply wasn’t reliable. This week, they release version 0.5, and it’s great!
Something was amiss with the 0.4.x version of the Mac client as [...]
May 1st, 2007
I currently use .mac as an additional backup for some of my most essential files, such as business and personal accounts, passwords and logins, etc., but I get nowhere near using the broader offering of .mac. I’ve therefore been on the lookout for a viable, more cost effective alternative - yes, that means possibly dropping [...]