Monthly Archive: October 2011

online payment

Should You Google Your Wallet?

 

Remember the days when a phone was for calling people? Well, they are long gone now.  First there were phones, then car phones, then mobile phones and now Smartphones.  There will probably be a new name for this next generation of phones coming out which seems to do anything you can imagine… Superphones perhaps?  Now, one of the necessities the Smartphone has taken on to replace is the wallet.

 

PRIVATE WiFi Announces Its “Hide Your Face on Facebook” Contest

PRIVATE WiFi, in conjunction with the ITRC, is sponsoring a contest for Facebook users to help remind them to keep their online identities safe. Four lucky winners will receive a yearly subscription and one grand prize winner will receive an iPad 2!

The Obscure, Flawed and Dangerous World of Certificates

Visiting a fake website can have consequences ranging from loss of privacy, to credit card theft, even identity theft. Certificates can be forged, flawed, or stolen. In fact, some security experts say that the Certificate system is “broken” – and there are no remedies on the horizon. How important is that? Well, very important, actually. Because if the Certificate system is no longer fully reliable, then HTTPS, and many other parts of the Internet security system which also use Certificates, are not reliable either. Click the headline above to read more about this alarming development.