Passwords are an integral part of our daily IT life – and a major source of vulnerabilities. What are the problems and risks, and how can we reduce them?
We use reviews and online testimonials when downloading an app or shopping on eBay. So, why not when choosing a new dentist?
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The world wide web today is more useful and accessible to more people than it ever has been. So why do some early pioneers of the web think it has been ruined?
What comes next in an Australian domain name could be up to you.
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How many times have you been looking for information online, only to find yourself going round and round in circles? Or you’ve spent too long poking around a website trying to find what you need, only…
Apollo Bay in Victoria. Australia’s coastal towns are vulnerable to changes in the surrounding seas.
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Australia’s coastal towns, many built around fisheries and tourism, are particularly vulnerable to climate change. South east and south west Australia are marine hotspots — they are warming much faster…
Your computer has a special fingerprint that can give away details of your online browsing.
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Just how much information we give away about ourselves as we browse the web has been raised again by a tracking device used in thousands of websites. Researchers at Belgium’s University of Leuven have…
Website design shouldn’t elicit this reaction.
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There is probably not one of us reading this who has not lost themselves in time and space as they surf the web. So much engaging content, so many interesting lines of enquiry – and so much rubbish too…
Because many people use the same password on multiple sites, hacks that expose login details can create new risks.
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Beautiful women make great con people, as do handsome men. Why? Because, for better or worse, we are predisposed to trust beautiful people more than normal-looking folks. But what if we take it one step…
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