Facebook Enhance Online Security With One-Time Passwords
By: Jamie Pert | Posted: October 13, 2010Filed under: Social Media
Ever gone into an internet café or around a friends house only to realise that you have left yourself logged in, and frantically make that dash back to save yourself from being publicly shamed or even ‘faceraped?’ Facebook have been working on this and will try and make your life…
Wellpoint Glitch: Online Security Breach
By: Peter Chubb | Posted: June 30, 2010Filed under: Alternative News
WellPoint, the health insurer had to contact 470,000 of its customers due to a glitch in their online system. It is said that this security breach could have made available personal details such as credit card information, medical records and other personal particulars
Creating Strong Passwords: Tips and Guidelines
By: Peter Chubb | Posted: May 12, 2010Filed under: Alternative News
The most important thing that we often fail to do when setting up a new online account for something is creating strong passwords – something that Facebook users know only too well. We often choose something simple so that we can always remember our password, such as a birth date,…
Blippy Credit Card Leak via Google: Lessons Learned
By: Peter Chubb | Posted: April 25, 2010Filed under: Social Media
We were shocked to learn that 200 credit card transactions that were shared on Blippy – a new social networking startup – have been exposed by doing a simple Google search. Within the information exposed were credit card numbers, Blippy has now had them removed from Google’s cache.
