Students (or anyone) moving to a new city after New Year?
Now is the time that many people are looking for rental accommodation to take up for 2012 whether it be for studying at Uni or other reasons.  We have noticed a spate of rental accommodation scams lately where a real bargain [...]

A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss
Or – there is no such thing as a free lunch.
We are all hooked into social networking/media in some way or another (or I doubt you’d be reading this!). We know the advantages it brings us, lots of positives or we wouldn’t bother would we?
What happens when it all [...]

Christmas decorations are up in Newmarket and present lists are being made. (iPad please Santa).
It is really tempting to procure those ‘bargains’ from online websites – but please be very wary. There are lots of legitimate sites for your purchases and also hundreds of scams. For example the website Alibaba.com has thousands [...]

Removing abusive content from Facebook
NetSafe has had numerous calls from schools recently regarding Facebook pages with abusive content which are linked to schools and contain anonymous posts as well as identifiable student posts.
These pages violate a number of FB terms
3. Safety
6. You will not bully, intimidate, or harass any user.
7. You will [...]

Sad as it may be, there are those in all our communities who will take advantage of others for personal gain. It is disturbing to look at the amount of personal information very well meaning people are posting online in response to the CHCH earthquake. Some sites are offering temporary accommodation and people [...]

Many people realise after they have followed some genuine seeming online or phone instructions (which involve sending money) that really not everything rang true. Why would someone working offshore want to buy sight unseen, that car/boat I have advertised ?
Why would a money reclaim service need a ‘deposit’ before my money can be released? Has [...]

Last night I went to this public lecture given by Dr Russell Smith, Principal Criminologist and Head of the Global Economic and Electronic Crime Programme at the Australian Institute of Criminology. He covered types of scams, breaking down online scams to syntactic (exposing technical vulnerabilities) and semantic (exploiting social vulnerabilities). From Symantec Aust. figures in [...]

Years ago I was a counsellor in an agency which worked with sexual abuse survivors and rape victims. The vast majority of our work was with women and girls though we also had a few male clients (and a male counsellor). Abuse, bullying, harassment is not gender specific however recently I have a sense of [...]

Poor Winston Reid, he doesn’t know what to do. By the time he got back on the bus after the All White’s draw with Slovakia he had “over 100 messages and 40 missed calls. I went onto Facebook and that was horrible as well. It was swamped. Where do I start? If I start answering [...]

Present: Pauline McGowan (National Library), Elaine McDonald (CIH), Rob Berg (SPINZ), Pam Martin (Kiwi Computer Challenge), Sarah Putt (Action Media), Di Das (CIH), Russell O’Brien (Vector Communications), Judge Harvey, Jordan Carter (InternetNZ), Georgina Wilkinson (SAFE), Ann Hatherly (CORE-Ed) Sean Lyons, Martin Cocker, Caroline McNeill, Nancy Groh, John Fenaughty, Chris Hails (NetSafe). Wgtn: Paul McKitrick (dnc), [...]