I don’t think kids are getting the message, allowing anything that you would not be comfortable for your mother to see, should never be allowed onto any digital device, from explicit text messages to embarrassing pictures, never, I don’t know …
Category Archives: Abuse
AntiCrawler, referrer spam turned nasty
AntiCrawler, referrer spam turned nasty, asking you to add potentially malicious code to your own site.
Although this is by far not the most popular blog, I do like to look in each day to check up on things, and …
Blog Spammers and which CAPTCHA, 5 reviewed
CAPTCHA, standing for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart” has been around since 2000, so was already fairly well developed when the bots started targeting blogs, guest books and wiki’s which are the main target …
Personal privacy is now being taken seriously
In these very sad cases of malicious sharing of embarrassing images and video. In Canada, Rehtaeh’s law is being proposed and now in Israel revenge porn is punishable with 5 years imprisonment, “putting an end to virtual rape, in which …
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
…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 …