A while ago I posted about our in-house challenge to try and adopt each other's specialities in an exercise of broadening our knowledge and trying out new technologies .. my side of the bargain was to try out Linux as my main Operating System (OS).  Here's how I'm getting on so far!

A recent study has discovered that users do not consider data security to be very important. More accurately, they do not fully understand the potential implications of data loss, and so focus their concern on other more trivial matters.

In an attempt to leave our respective comfort zones, Ruth and I have been trying each others specialism in their spare time. Ruth's been having adventures installing and running a GNU/Linux based system, and I've been designing and building a site using Joomla! 1.5

Amongst various issues I've encountered, I found that enabling Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URL's broke my new site. Rather than a nicely formatted site, resplendant with images the site returned plain text in a column on the right hand side of a white page!

The Internet Security landscape is littered with the metaphorical bodies of those who routinely fall for the popular ruses perpetrated by malware authors, phishing scams and 419'ers. Much of the badware out there is reliant on convincing the target (or mark) to undertake some type of action, education is therefore a very important weapon in the fight against 'cybercrime'.

The 411 scam is generally known to most of the world as Advance-fee fraud, or a 419 Scam. Traditionally 419 scams originate from Nigeria, and the name refers to the section under the Nigerian criminal code that such a crime applies to. Quite when the term 411 scam became popular is unclear, but the American Dialect society has traced the term '419 Fraud' back to 1992.