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For those of you that have an Android device running Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) or Jelly Bean (JB), it may come as a surprise that you can actually manage quite a bit of your device/app security and privacy from within “Settings”. Here are some simple steps I think you should know about your Android device. The following steps are applicable to Ice Cream Sandwich and the latest Android OS and JellyBean only and can be found in “Settings”.
- The Ice Cream Sandwich “Settings” menu can be found either on the pull down notification bar – you will then need to click
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Thursday, 5 Jul, 2012
A Twitter account @NeedADebitCard was set up about a month ago to raise awareness of the dangers of sharing debit and credit card photos and it has attracted in excess of 9,000 followers to date. The cards show the names, card numbers, expiration dates and in some cases the CVV code, which is on the back of the card. @NeedADebitCard is raising awareness about the dangers of card fraud (not identity fraud as such) by retweeting Twitter messages with links to debit/credit card images. The account clearly states that they want people to “Please quit posting pictures of your debit cards, people”.
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Thursday, 5 Jul, 2012
For those that remember, Facebook quietly announced back in April that Facebook users would be receiving an @facebook.com email address, so that it matched their public username, which is the same as used by your URL for your
At Google I/O last week it was revealed that Adobe Systems will officially discontinue certified Adobe Flash runtime implementation support for Google Android JellyBean 4.1. Adobe confirmed last week that they have completely stopped developing and testing Flash
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Friday, 29 Jun, 2012
It’s been a great week so far at Google I/O with the announcement of the Nexus Q, 7 and Galaxy products running JellyBean. Google also announced an update to their Google+ mobile app along with Tablet Optimization,
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Wednesday, 27 Jun, 2012
Google announced earlier today here at the Google I/O 2012 event, the arrival of Android 4.1 (JellyBean). At the time of writing it isn’t known which Android devices will be getting Android 4.1. Here are two security
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Wednesday, 27 Jun, 2012
Maybe Apple has realised that Macs can get malware and viruses after all. They’ve recently made a small change to their marketing webpage – gone are a Mac “doesn’t get PC viruses” and in its place we
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Friday, 22 Jun, 2012
Have you ever typed something on the Facebook website and regretted typing it? Until now, the only option you had was to copy and paste the comment into a text file to edit before deleting the comment.
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Friday, 22 Jun, 2012
The upcoming iOS operating system version 6 will alert users when an app attempts to ask for permission to access your contacts, calendars, reminders and your photo library. To date, current iOS apps only ask permission for
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Friday, 15 Jun, 2012
RBS and NatWest in the UK have begun rolling out a new feature in their
FREE smartphone banking app called ‘RBS / NatWest Mobile Banking’ (using a system called ‘GetCash’) that allows users to get up to £100 (minimum
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Wednesday, 13 Jun, 2012
Adobe has released several security improvements to Flash Player. The latest release is version 11.3. Mac OS X comes with a
silent updater, meaning it will download and install any updates
Today (June 8th) Facebook has introduced three security updates for protecting Android mobile users. First up is the Code Generator which allows the user to report unwanted content on their Android mobile device. The Code Generator should they
