//Something to watch out for if you’re off on your holidays about now….
The Daily Mail reports that a parent received a bill for their daughter who was on holiday in Antigua for £9000!
The daughter had been checking Facebook and not realising she wasn’t connected to wi-fi.
So – check your roaming settings before you leave the UK and if you have to use data, speak to your mobile operator about deals/bundles and limits.
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//Facebook is in the news this week for experimenting on its users. They manipulated news stories in peoples news feeds to see what the effects were on their posts. Perhaps not surprisingly, the posts reflected the manipulated news feeds positively or negatively. Various European regulatory authorities are looking into this.
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//Microsoft (again) have announced they have improved the encryption for OneDrive and Outlook.com. This means that it’s harder to snoop on the data going to and from these services. MS recently spoke about their intentions to offer better protection against hackers and government snooping – which has got to be a good thing!
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//Microsoft sometimes get bad press for IT Security but these days they are moving against organised cybercrime. Yesterday they took control of a malware ring operating from Kuwait and Algeria which was the first time non-Eastern European counties have been involved.
Microsoft say the 30% of PCs which run their anti-virus software had shown signs of the malware known as Bladabindi and Jenxcus amounting to 7.4 million PCs.
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//I haven’t posted for a while but getting back into the groove…
Have you received a phone call at home or at work about something wrong with your computer or your bank account?
This con is on the rise – hence a new word in our vocab: vishing – phishing by voice.
It’s just another form of social engineering. They usually want your payment card details – so be careful out there.
The UK government is launching a new campaign about it: http://www.getsafeonline.org/socialengineering/