Surveillance Self-Defense The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has a new guide, entitled “Surveillance Self-Defense”, to help people and organisations keep data and communications secure from unauthorised access. The site has many written guides, as well as videos, that are written for anyone that cares about how to keep themselves, their family and their contacts safe online. The site is at: https://ssd.eff.org.
Continue reading →iOS Update 9.3.5 If you have an iPhone, an iPad or an iPod Touch, you need the iOS update to 9.3.5 urgently. To update, go to Settings, General, Software Update. Your device will check for the latest software and you can then choose to update your device. The update is to fix a critical security problem that can be used to remotely access your contacts list, read your emails and text messages and call history. It can also record sound, collect passwords and track the location of the device by using the GPS, cellular data or local wifi access points. … Continue reading →
Best Password Manager As you may have seen from some of the other posts here and from other news sources, there are major security issues with re-using the same password on more than one website. The problem has been around for as long as the Internet has been in existence. How do you remember all of the different combinations of Username and Password. For this I recommend a password manager called Lastpass. There are two versions available. The free version has all of the same features as the paid version except for the ability to synchronise the data between devices. … Continue reading →
Stagefright 2 All Android devices are vulnerable. The new problem, dubbed Stagefright 2 affects all Android devices and leaves them vulnerable to being hacked. Stagefright 2 is attackable through two vulnerabilities in the way the Android Operating System (OS) handles .mp3 audio and .mp4 video files. Unlike the original Stagefright problem, which required the attacker to send a malicious file to the device via the Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), the new problem just requires that the user opens a malicious file. This could be the result of clicking a link in an email or on a website that had been … Continue reading →