Articles inside the category: News
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Thursday, 20 Oct, 2011
It’s National Identity Fraud Prevention Week this week in the UK. As part of Julian's identity fraud awareness push he'd like just go over some old ground. Fellowes a paper-shredding supplier commissioned a report which highlighted that 7 per cent of the UK population (4 million people) have been a victim of identity fraud at one time or another.
If you visit CIFAS the UK’s fraud prevention agency they claim that the average cost per person of identity fraud is 1190 GBP. This figure is misleading as we don’t know whether this refers to the ‘consumer’ or ‘financial
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Thursday, 20 Oct, 2011
A number of Facebook users have contacted Julian about the “Hide this from” feature. They wanted to know whether they could hide posts from some friends. Let’s clear this up. Well Julian will attempt to clear it up today, because tomorrow Facebook may have changed this!
The custom settings (Privacy Settings > Control Your Default Privacy > Custom) including the ‘me only’ setting, doesn’t stop your friends from seeing your posts. It now appears that if you use the custom setting, you can add 20 people at any one time but if you add more than 20 people, your
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Friday, 14 Oct, 2011
Apple has this week (12th October) released it's latest mobile operating system called iOS 5. The new iOS 5 patches 96 vulnerabilities, including 69 security fixes for WebKit.
The more notable security fixes included are; memory corruption issues
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Friday, 14 Oct, 2011
Julian Evans wondered for some time whether it might be possible to develop a security app for Facebook, that provides protection at levels similar to Internet security suites. Julian's research has concluded that providing a scanning, tracking
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Friday, 14 Oct, 2011
Fraudsters are smart, so much so that they know how to outwit the banks security, clearing system and best of all innocent account holders. So how do fraudsters use identity theft to steal your overdraft facility? Read
Facebook is introducing URL (link scanning) protection for its users as from today (Oct 3rd, 2011). When a user clicks on any link in Facebook, Websense using its ThreatSeeker Cloud Malware Identification Platform, will analzye each URL
An nVidia GeForce GT220 graphics card, which costs about 30 GBP, is capable of cracking strong passwords in a matter of hours. Security experts were able to crack a 6 character password in 4 seconds, a 7
SpyEye has been observed trying to trick users into reassigning their cellphone numbers to receive one-time passwords (OTP) from their banks by SMS. The social engineering scam (assuming SpyEye has already infected the target PC) is found
Facebook scammers are exploiting the death of Apple chief Steve Jobs. A few hours after Steve Jobs' death scammers were busy creating a Facebook page called "R.I.P.Steve Jobs" which contained a malicious URL and text claiming that
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Thursday, 6 Oct, 2011
Microsoft have released their "Patch Tuesday" update for October 11th which includes a critical flaw that could give attackers the ability to remotely spread a virus through compromised Internet Explorer and Windows users. The security update will
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Friday, 30 Sep, 2011
The Amazon Kindle Fire (launched 09/28/11) runs a browser called Silk but it also supports/runs software in Amazon’s cloud. The cloud (Amazon Web Services) will manage the browser performance i.e. loading web pages, rendering graphics and managing
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Thursday, 29 Sep, 2011
Google Chrome users who read
julianevansblog.com, have voiced concerns on a number of occasions recently about the AutoFill feature. Let’s take a look at this feature (which has been around for over a year
