The art of “War Driving” is starting to hit home in many areas.
This is where a computer hacker drives around a neighbourhood using their laptop to scan for unsecured wireless networks.
Unless your home network is encrypted, you are at risk!
War drivers can use unsecured networks to steal your personal information, send spam, cruise for kiddie […]
A great little parody of the laws that allow government agencies to monitor which books people are reading by viewing library borrowing records.
An enterprising young fellow has showed the world how it is possible to mine people’s data from Amazon wishlists in order to compile their reading habits.
Then just match that list against a list […]
If you aren’t sure what click fraud is then where have you been? This is THE fasting growing area of fraud on the internet and one that could bring down whole (very large) companies unless it is stemmed.
The folks over at Boing Boing have alerted us a to a neat little story at Wired […]
Learning how to phish for people’s ID and banking information isn’t really a problem. In fact phishing information is available on almost every story about the topic - even in the mainstream press.
Now, luckily the banks are starting to get pretty good with tracking down these guys and shutting them down, but the problem is […]
Ok, now this is where a computer virus has actually served the cause of justice!
If you spend a lot of time on the internet then there is a fair chance that you have recieved that email that starts “We have logged your IP address on more than 30 illegal websites. Please answer our questions. The […]