Featured Article : Dealing With Social Media Addiction
With TikTok announcing new features for teens and families, including a 60-minute daily screen time limit, we look at the issue of social media addiction and ideas for tackling it. TikTok Time Limit (Short) video sharing app TikTok has just announced that every account belonging to a user below age 18 will automatically be set […]
Tech News : Even After Opting Out, Your Data May Still Be Shared
A recent US research paper entitled “Opted Out, Yet Tracked: Are Regulations Enough to Protect Your Privacy?” highlights how, in many cases, user data is still being collected, processed, and shared, even when users opt out through a Consent Management Platform (CMP). The Issue The research was based around developing a framework to measure how well Consent […]
Tech Insight : Throttling And The “Big Switchoff”
With OpenReach now ‘throttling’ broadband speeds and limiting phone calls as measures designed to gently “nudge” customers to upgrade as the “Big Switchoff” approaches, we look at exactly what’s happening, why, and when. What Is The Great Switchoff? The “Big Switchoff” refers to the switch from the old copper phone network to a new ‘Digital Voice’ alternative. Back in […]
Tech News : IT Security Threatened By Professional Burnouts
A Mimecast spokesman has warned that in a labour market already stretched by shortages, Dutch digital resilience could be threatened if more attention isn’t paid to the mental well-being of cyber security professionals. Wanting To Change Jobs Recent research commissioned by Mimecast in the Netherlands showed that a quarter of Dutch IT professionals are considering […]
Tech Tip – Send Web Pages To Your Inbox
If you’d like a way to send web pages you find interesting to your inbox rather than bookmarking them in Chrome and forgetting about them, the InboxThis extension may be helpful. Here’s how to use it: – Go to the Google Chrome Web Store and search for ‘InboxThis’. It’s a free browser extension that can […]
March Security Update
The concept of awareness refers to someone’s perception and knowledge of any given situation. Awareness serves many different purposes and is often applied to multiple use cases. For example, it’s common for various entities to raise public awareness, usually involving personal safety. The goal of public awareness campaigns is to educate large groups of […]
Security Stop-Press : Business Warned That ‘Deepfakes’ Are On The Rise
Following research, identity proofing experts ID R&D have warned businesses that there has been a rise in the number of fraud attempts and cyberattacks leveraging deepfake technology, i.e. the use of AI-powered technology to create convincing videos of people. Research indicates that nearly half (42 per cent) of organisations have already encountered deepfake attacks. ID […]
Featured Article : TikTok Trouble?
Following the banning of Chinese short video sharing app TikTok from EU and US government devices, plus more trouble on the way in Canada, we look at some of the reasons why. Banned From EU Government Devices The European Commission recently decided to ban the TikTok app from staff phones (work and personal devices). EC […]
Tech News : New Meta Verified Blue Badge Subscription Service
Meta has announced it’s launching its own version of Twitter’s Blue Tick called ‘Meta Verified’ for Facebook and Instagram where users pay a monthly subscription to be verified on the platforms. Announcement On February 19, Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced that Meta is starting the rollout of its new ‘Meta Verified’ subscription service for Facebook […]
Tech News : 2FA Storm At Twitter
Twitter-owner Elon Musk’s latest decision to turn off SMS 2FA after 20 March unless you pay for Blue Tick has caused another storm of criticism. What And Why? On 15 February, Twitter announced that: “starting today, we will no longer allow accounts to enroll in the text message/SMS method of 2-Factor Authentication unless they are Twitter […]