I am very pleased to have been accepted as a volunteer by ISC2 to present their “Safe and Secure Online” message to local schools (in Fredericton).
Kids don’t tend to get the vital messages regarding Cyber Security from media, …
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Improving confidentiality on the internet
The IETF announced that they are taking the lead on to “develop the technical specifications to improve the privacy and security of the Internet”. They are probably best placed to raise the profile in the IT community. Looking at the …
IconicFocus
I was pleased to welcome IconicFocus to ImageFolio in May 2013, Located in New York’s, Madison Avenue, they were the first agency we have had to leverage age separated talent types.…
Biggest threat to Children online, and it’s growing fast
Abusive images of children online is not a new thing, traditionally it has been paedophiles swapping images amongst themselves.
My only professional involvement was after putting together a case for a photographer client over image thefts from his online library, …
Securing a Facebook Account from hackers
This has come up a few times over the last few years, either it’s as a form of cyber bullying, taking your account from you, an automated bot that’s set to spam your friends or the more determined targeting of
…Privacy issues unresolved
It’s been a long and eventful summer which has kept me away from the blog, what spurned me on today was the first bit of good news I’ve seen since Snowdon raised the issue, it’s not much, but it something
…Why no prosecutions for privacy breaches
This case has been dragging on for years
in the UK prosecutions of News International staff, “Private Investigators” and a couple of policemen that we’re phone tapping, breaching privacy to make the news stories out of thin air, as …
A large scam of a type I’ve not seen before
A client contacted me unsure whether the be honored or worried when he came across his own site completely cached on another domain name “domainname.newvirtuallife.com”, doing a Google of the domain name “newvirtuallife.com” gave me dozens of other examples of …
Reporting Hate Speech
This is a subject that has come up a few times, often very frustrating when someone comes to you saying there is something online, either a personal attack or one broadly at the persons race or sexual orientation. If the
…Working on ridding the web of child abuse images
Google have pledged an extra $2m although the daily mail quotes $4.5m to combat the spread of child abuse images online.
They have gone into little detail about the hashtag system used to assist police in their removal, which does …