Clik here to view.
Heres looking at Vimeo! – Their security settings are pretty comprehensive!
Vimeo Vimeo is a video sharing social media platform that had 14 million active members in December 2012 and has over 675 million visits a year. Not bad for a website that was first launched to a small...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Security News in Brief
“Unfortunately, it’s likely your site was hacked.” Google has launched a new “Help for Hacked Sites” information series to help site owners deal with hacking and understand how to recover their hacked...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Has Facebook run its Course? Are problems within the social media platform...
Is Facebook Still Relevant Today? Facebook was once the top dog of social media platforms and could seemingly do no wrong. That is, until it did. With issues surrounding privacy, security and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Facebook Security – Learn how to spot scams and avoid malware on Facebook
Facebook Malware, Scams and Worms With billions of people connecting on social networking sites, these sites have become a number one target for scams, malware and worms. The only guaranteed way to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
MovieStarPlanet – Not just Child’s Play – What every parent should know.
MovieStarPlanet MovieStarPlanet is a free social interactive fantasy website created for children aged between 8 and 15 years old. Children get to choose from a variety of movie star characters, dress...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Omniquad warns: Fake CNN and BBC News Alerts point to MALWARE!
Internet criminals have come up with a new way of distributing malware through email campaigns, they send breaking news emails from some popular news site likes CNN and the BBC. The emails are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why Google+ Could Beat Facebook in the Social Networking War
Google+ VS Facebook When social networking as a concept was unleashed onto a wider audience, it was largely aimed at young people and of those most were divided between MySpace and Bebo. Then Facebook...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Omniquad Alerts: Malware found in Fake Cover-More Insurance Policy Documents
Fake Cover-More Insurance Emails Carry contains zipped exe-file carrying malware The email claims to be from popular Australian based travel insurance provider Cover-More, and disguised as a Travel...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Omniquad warns: Fake Speeding Ticket Emails carry W32.FakeHddRepair Trojan
There are currently emails with the subject line “Uniform Traffic Ticket” in circulation that claims to be from the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles. The email in the example below claims...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Omniquad Informs: BT Internet and Yahoo! Email Accounts Compromised – What to...
BT Internet and Yahoo! Email Accounts Compromised We have recently become aware of several issues associated with BT and Yahoo email accounts. Some of these accounts have become compromised by hackers...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Protecting yourself, your pc and financial data from Cyber Attacks
You have probably read or seen it on the news. There will be a big cyber attack in two weeks. Not quite. In brief, it is not that the attack will come in two weeks, the issue is that Russian and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Omniquad launches Mailwall Cloud – Wide Angle protection for Office 365
Many small and large businesses prepare to take to the Clouds with Microsoft Office 365. A cloud based solution makes sense, and a scale-able powerful cloud solution even more sense. But is it enough?...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Exploring Scam Websites – Focus on Government Services Copycat sites
Looking back at “Tax Disc Scams” in particular From October 2014 you could no longer renew your tax disc or pay for road tax at post offices throughout the UK, it would have to be done online. In the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Focus on Scam Websites Part II – Paying over the odds to part with personal...
In the previous article, “Exploring Scam Websites – Focus on Government Services Copycat sites” we looked back at tax disc scams in the run up to tax disc renewals moving from the post office to online...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Microsoft Azure Cloud Service Outages
Unreliability of Microsoft Azure calls for third party products and services to supplement Office 365 Instability in Azure has been causing some major down time for Microsoft’s Cloud customers,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How simulating Cyber Threats using role play can help you avoid the Pitfalls...
SC Magazine wrote a great article in November, “Acting out: Cyber simulation exercises”, explaining how role play can play an important part for businesses combating cyber threats. The comparison to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Omniquad Customer Update – National Cyber-attack 12.05.2017
Hackers have been exploiting data stolen from the US government and performed multiple cyber-attack across the UK and also globally. The NHS in particular has been affected. The attackers behind...
View Article
