YubiKey Neo
Yubico the maker of the YubiKey introduced a NFC version at CES 2013 . YubiKey is a One Time Password dongle. It provides a strong two factor authorization to any site or platform. All versions of YubiKeys use best practice security…
Identity Theft Made Easy
Viz Top Tip… Make identity theft easy by posting a picture of your credit card on Twitter or other social media. (The airbrushing is mine) Quite unbelievably, this young lady posted a picture of her new credit card on Twitter…
My system crash revealed the one piece left in the Google ads puzzle
For the most part I don’t find that Google ads are such a bad thing. They are relatively unobtrusive and they are generally based on such information as location and web history. Let’s leave alone the privacy implications of those two facts…
Top 10 Worst Passwords of 2012
It’s sad that, even today, lists like this exist. Unfortunately, security continues to be a major issue for computer users around the world thanks to, not only malware and viruses, but also just plain old lack of understanding by many…
Mozilla Pushes 16.01 Update for Firefox
Yesterday Mozilla took the unprecedented step of pulling down a version of Firefox and warning those who had already installed it to stop using the browser. The move came after a rather bad security flaw was found in the software…
Lookout for Android Can Now Find your Phone Even When the Battery is Dead
Last week I told you that Lookout, the popular security app for Android, was teasing a big announcement for this week. Today their new update began rolling out to users and it came with several new features, but the one…
Lookout for Android Has Something Big Planned
While the vast majority of Android users will probably never need to worry about malware contaminating their smartphone, it never really hurts to play it safe by installing something like Lookout. If you install non-Google Play Store apps then this…