The Facebook social network is a great way to share anything and everything with friends…but if you don’t have your privacy settings right then you could be over-sharing with people you don’t know. One easy way to view how other people view your Facebook page is to use the website www.profilewatch.org. Once you type in the address of your facebook[Read More…]
This week the World Wide Web turns 21 and if you watched the London Olympics opening ceremony you may have spotted its inventor. It was on August 6 1991 that the very first web page from British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee was made available online but whatever you do don’t confuse the World Wide Web with The Internet. The Internet[Read More…]
The latest community threat report released by AVG Technologies reveals and Android Bootkit that turns smartphones into “Zombies”, a malicious Trojan inside an unofficial Angry Birds app and PC users are still being tricked into clicking by sex and scandal. This week I spoke with AVG AU/NZ security advisor Michael McKinnon about these threats and some tips on prevention. You[Read More…]
Here’s some interesting stats about how Australians use Twitter (from http://datafication.com.au/) Tweets from Australia represent 2.8percent of the world’s daily tweets… That’s Tweets 5000 per minute…80 per second. 54% of those Tweets are coming from females, who prefer to Tweet on a Friday (while Males favour Wednesday for Tweets). Do you have a problem with Internet Addiction? (Or know someone who[Read More…]
