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  • Cyber Affairs – The new adultry

    Why do people cheat? Well its usually for a few reasons. Mostly its because they are not happy in their relationship (more on this later). Other times is because they can, they don’t care or have no respect for the person the are with. It could be for revenge or they fall in love with [...]

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  • Steganography – Invisible Secrets

    A picture may be worth a thousand words, but it could also hide something more treacherous. Today, businesses wanting to guard against the potentially ultra-serious hazard of vitally important data being deliberately leaked to unauthorised people outside or even inside the organisation, need to get to grips with an alarming reality: a picture can also [...]

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  • Password Advice

    Your passwords are the keys you use to access personal information that you’ve stored on your computer and in your online accounts. If criminals or other malicious users steal this information, they can use your name to open new credit card accounts, apply for a mortgage, or pose as you in online transactions. In many [...]

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  • Sexting – A Guide

    What Is “Sexting?” When people take a sexually revealing picture or video of themselves and send it or them as text message attachments, it’s called “sexting.” And recently the practice has been increasing exponentially amongst kids. Kids “sext” to show off, to entice someone, to show interest in someone, or to prove commitment. The problem [...]

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  • Cyberstalking – A Guide

    The lack of sensory information on the Internet (like too many adults,  teenagers and younger kids with a Facebook or Myspace page or Twitter account) may have a significant impact on cyberstalkers,  “The absence of sensory-perceptual stimuli from a real person means that fantasy can play an even more expansive role as the genesis of [...]

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  • Encryption 101

    For many people, the word “encryption” invokes images of spies, clandestine operations and World War II, or NSA code breakers feverishly working to decipher enemy messages. Actually, encryption is a priceless security tool that any business can easily use to keep sensitive information confidential and safe from prying eyes. Unfortunately, many businesses fail to take [...]

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  • Data Theft – Who has your data?

    Data theft is, quite simply, the unauthorised copying or removal of confidential information from a business or other large enterprise. It can take the form of ID-related theft (the theft of customer records) or the theft of a company’s proprietary information or intellectual property. ID Data Theft ID-related data theft occurs when customer records are [...]

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  • Clickjacking: A beginners guide

    Clickjacking is a form of client-side, web-based attack in which the attacker tricks the victim into clicking areas of disguised/obfuscated HTML elements, such as the IFRAME, APPLET, OBJECT, or other HTML elements that can display externally loaded resources. The clickjacking technique aims to circumvent the stringent security policies of the browser and all of its [...]

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