Tuesday, 21 July 2009

Various hreats;21 july 2009

Mcafee has warned tthat if you search for the names of female tennis players such as serena williams and maria sharapova,you increase your chances of cyber-attacks .

The Koobface worm which targets facebook users, can now alter a computer's DNS registry,this means your pc can be rdirected to the wrong website(s),where it can be infected with malware.
the worm is now targeting twitter users.

Microsoft has warned of a flaw in internet explorer that means hackers could take control of your computer.

Michael jackson malware has been created.

Saturday, 4 July 2009

Protecting your children online

There are various ways to protect your children online,such as some isps have childsafe web surfing.

Programmes can monitor your children's use.

net nanny 6.0
www.avanquest.com

spysure

webroot parental conrols
www.webroot.co.uk

Security concerns about some of Google services

Google Mail/gmail is not set to https because it is disabled by default.

To see how to turn on https in google, visit www.webuser.co.k/googletips