Home Comcast Xfinity Routers As Public WiFi Hotspots
ISP giant Comcast has quietly implemented a plan to turn its home Wifi routers into public hotspots. On the surface, it seems like a good idea, as it would allow their customers to get online easily over a much larger area, no longer confined to the environs of coffee...
Dangers of Public Wi-Fi
[Note: This is derived from articles originally published in the July and August editions of the SWCP Portal, our monthly newsletter. Due to the importance of the security information they contained, we're republishing them here for everyone.] Ars Technica tech news...
Ransomware: Another Reason for Back-Ups
Among the many kinds of wicked online traps that users must beware, one of the most vicious kinds is called "ransomware". This is a generic term for a type of malicious software that encrypts all or the most useful of the victim's files, making it impossible to open...
US Leads the World in Spam
One interesting fact that didn't make it into this month's newsletter article on "The Secret Life of Spam" is that the United States leads the world in the overall volume of spam produced. And by a huge margin, too: according to security site Sophos, 24% of all spam...
What Does Apple’s New Privacy Policy Mean?
Apple's CEO Tim Cook has recently been touting the company's new privacy policy. In a letter to customers, he said that while the company collected user data, that was not the basis of their business model. In an obvious swipe at Google, he claimed: Our business model...
Stop Using Internet Explorer – Again
The news of the latest zero-day (or previously unknown and unpatched) exploit for Microsoft's browser, Internet Explorer 8, being fixed is still fresh. But another has been announced. This one, however, has not been fixed. Even worse, Microsoft's known about it for 7...