Police may not think there are burglars targeting Apple buyers yet in NZ but it doesn’t hurt to be cautious

Ever since Dick Van Dyke attempted a cockney accent in Disney’s 1964 movie Mary Poppins, the ability to impersonate a Londoner has been subject to serious critical analysis.
Van Dyke’s cheery Bert  is according to Wikipedia “still often cited as one of the worst attempts at a British accent by an American actor”.
After 45+ years of [...]

Last week, two interesting things happened on the filtering front. Firstly, the NetSafe group held a meeting which included presentations from the DIA and InternetNZ about how the DIA’s filter might impact safety. Two days later, Tv3 ran a story about the results of the filter trial (which they had obtained through an Official Information Act Request) [...]

The activation of a high level Child Abuse Imagery filter almost certainly changes the cyber safety landscape. In our role as cyber safety community coordinator, we need to get a better handle around what those changes will actually be.

Consumer Focus, the UK government-backed watchdog is critical of the music industry for failing to promote legal music download services – and linking it to high rates of music piracy. I think they’re wrong.

I’m constantly amused by people who tell you what the Internet “is” – as if there are some irrefutable laws of science that define it. An apple falls from the tree to earth because of gravity.  The Internet provides a free and uncaptured environment for information because that’s how it was built. Everything good and [...]

I was asked to make a comment recently for Victoria University’s student news publication Salient about a service called Pleaserobme.com.
Pleaserobme is a self proclaimed “Hack” from Social Media consultants Forthehack based in Rijswijk, The Netherlands, which scans and parses geographical information posted by users of the FourSquare.com service on the four square site and across [...]

February 9 was Safer Internet Day (SID). An annual event run by InSafewhich was apparently celebrated through 500 events in 50 countries around the world.  It is certainly a busy day for the European cybersafety organisations who release new resources, run events, and generally try to constructively raise the profile of cybersafety.
New Zealand is probably considered one of those countries [...]

A couple of reports on the news feed this morning updated the current state of the confickerinfection. There are estimated to be 5 million computers worldwide infected with conficker. In theory, those computers are a massive botnet waiting to be remotely controlled by hackers.
In fact, with 5 million computers – you can do a lot of damage. [...]

IBMs research has shown “”That is a huge, precipitous decline in the amount of phishing,” they stated that the reasons for this were because people were smarting up to phishing emails and also security which picks up on most of the phishing sites/emails. What the article fails to mention is even though email phishing is [...]