SPAM, SCAM or PHISHING
SPAM, SCAM or PHISHING ? I don't know about you, but these days, I am quite careful at looking at all the emails I receive to make sure I am not a victim of spam, scam, phishing or viruses etc.…
SPAM, SCAM or PHISHING ? I don't know about you, but these days, I am quite careful at looking at all the emails I receive to make sure I am not a victim of spam, scam, phishing or viruses etc.…
I recently attended a networking meeting in Fareham with a group called Business Builders where their guest speaker was Allan Beaton who is a "social media scientist" and an expert on an application called Hootsuite. For those of you who…
Recently, I was working on a design where I needed to match the exact font from the logo. I managed to identify the name of the font used in the image and then set to, as I have done many…
Cold calling tech-support scams have been around for quite a while now. Reports indicate that these people, generally based in India, have extorted millions of pounds out of English speaking victims in the UK, Canada, the US and other countries…
No I'm not going mad, bear with me. Many years ago when I was an engineering student, one of my college lecturers had a unique style of teaching. When teaching a subject, particularly one that was a bit complicated, he…
Well the deadline for compliance with the new EU Cookie Law on the 26th of May 2012 has come and gone and a further survey since by KPMG suggests that around 80% of UK websites they surveyed are pretty much…
Having reached the deadline today (24th May) for making websites compliant with the new EU Cookie Laws, it is expected that thousands of UK websites will not meet the new regulations. A last minute change in the ICO guidelines, released…
As expected, there continues to be quite a lot of press on this topic as we get nearer to the final deadline for compliance on the 26th of May. In an interview with Computer World UK magazine last week, a…
The ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office), who are responsible for enforcing the law in the UK, have said they will take a dim view of organisations that fail to act before the deadline. ” Those who choose to do nothing will have their lack of action taken into account when we begin formal enforcement of the rules.” – Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham
The law also requires that you tell your visitors to your website about your use of cookies or other tracking technologies, and how they can delete or control them.