Macs have always been said to be much more secure than their PC friends but if it’s your passwords or just what you do that needs to be kept secure you can never be too careful.

MacScan is designed for the Mac OS X; its job is to detect, isolate and remove spyware, trojan horses, keystroke loggers and to make remote administration applications aware if they have been inadvertently or maliciously installed on your Macintosh computer (read more…)

When you hear words like “quantum-mechanical wiretap” it either goes over your head or you think “What’s that about then”.

Well a simulation has proven that it is very possible to eavesdrop on super-secure encrypted messages which were thought to be nearly 100% uncrackable (guess my security is back to passwords then, what password next and I wonder what’s common) (read more…)

If a hacker gets your password they may then be able to cause you many problems but with OTP (one-time password) that problem is solved as the password only works one time.

One-time password works by generating a unique password that provides connection security by working just one time (no more problems with people being silly with common passwords), this stops password sniffing attacks dead.

This technology is been around a while but (read more…)

We see security updates for windows and we download them to protect ourselves and sometimes things go wrong and this is one such time as a patch released in early April has been causing problems for some users and now there is an updated version of this (read more…)

When a large number of hijacked computers are under the control of a single person remotely via a control system and net-based command, this is called a BOTNET.
The number of these computers joining a BOTNET is increasing, as the computers are being hijacked by malicious hackers with one mission (to send out viruses and spam) (read more…)

Your standing at a shop window and you notice your reflection and you decide to stop to see who good you look, you look around and you cannot see anyone so you begin acting stupid and pulling faces at yourself.
Now look around - you might not be the only one watching. (read more…)