8May2013
Posted by Kirsten Dunlaevy kdunlaevy@gmail.com
Is the end of computers coming?
It’s possible…We’re definitely looking at an era where more and more people are
choosing tablets, e-readers, and smartphones over laptops. And experts
have predicted that 60% of the market growth for this year will be in those
categories.
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7May2013
Posted by Kirsten Dunlaevy kdunlaevy@gmail.com
Be honest, do you 100% know each and every one of your Facebook
friends? Could any of them be online friends? Friends you haven’t met in the
physical world? If that’s the case, they could well be social bots! Social bots
(short for robots) not only masquerade as real people online, but they post
like real people do, secretly promoting products or viewpoints, all while
slowly stealing your private information. Botnets are the latest in social
media dangers.
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30April2013
Posted by Kirsten Dunlaevy kdunlaevy@gmail.com
There have been rumours recently that mobile phones may be allowed to be turned on on
planes in the near future. So what was the risk of having them turned on
anyways? Would the plane really fall out of the sky?
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30April2013
Posted by Andreea-Luciana Ostache andreea_ostache@bullguard.com
"Con games," "Scam," "Stratagem (deception),"
and “Confidence trick” are all terms
used to express the attempt to defraud a person after first gaining their
confidence. Fraud, in all its forms, has been a very difficult issue to deal
with for all countries over the years. And since the internet has become a sort
of a big, free and easy to access social network in itself, cybercrooks can
easily leverage its perks in order to distribute malicious software and all
kinds of scams.
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