Cybersecurity News, Advice and Opinion

LinkedIn Hacked: The 5 things to do

6.5 million encrypted LinkedIn passwords have been published on a Russian hacker’s website. LinkedIn users with weak passwords are the most vulnerable, with 300,000...

my1login shortlisted for 2012 Digital Technology Award

my1login's delighted to be nominated for the 'Best New Product or Service' in the 2012 ScotlandIS Digital Technology Awards.

Twitter advises users to change their passwords

Hackers this week claimed to have compromised the accounts of 55,000 Twitter users, publishing their usernames and passwords online using the Pastebin web service.

Phishing trip

Just a few days after writing an article on how to avoid phishing and spoofing scams, it was with precision timing that we were the target of a phishing attempt on...

Gone phishing

Spoofing and phishing - two terms you've probably heard of, but what do they actually mean, how do they work, and how can you avoid becoming a victim? Let's find...

Personal information found on 1 in 10 reused hard drives

A study by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has found that 11% of reused hard disk drives contain sensitive personal information about their...

Use a similar password for everything?

If you do, then it doesn’t really matter how strong you make your password.

Where's the Education on Security?

Last year, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt took a swipe at the teaching of computer science in the UK, by saying that the country that invented the computer was...