Monthly Archives: August 2012

Auto-Forwarding University Emails

To be more precise, this is about forwarding all of “your” email from your University mailbox to an unapproved mail service (i.e. Hotmail, an individual Google Mail account, etc.). The very short summary of all of this is: Don’t. We … Continue reading

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Visual Security Breaches … Or “Shoulder Surfing”

One aspect of security that is easy to overlook is visual security where sensitive information is displayed on a screen in a location where it can be overlooked by people who should not have access to that information. A new … Continue reading

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Are You Practising Safe Emailing?

Email is an old technology – I sent my first email almost exactly 25 years ago – and we are all quite used to it. So we have all developed habits over the years which we are used to, and not … Continue reading

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The Sophos Threatsaurus(!)

Sophos have released the latest version of their so-called “threatsaurus”, which whilst it does abuse the English language also details the top threats in IT security today. The document can be downloaded at the following URL :- http://www.sophos.com/en-us/security-news-trends/security-trends/threatsaurus.aspx If you … Continue reading

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